People want to feel young, cool, and free-spirited that’s what the ads and the movies have done. It’s an inspiration. The feeling of nicotine is addictive, a ‘fake’ effect of euphoria, thanks to that influx of dopamine receptors, it makes you crave that sweet escape. Except that you’re spiraling into an abyss.
Children in Indonesia not just smoke from almost infancy but depend on it as a livelihood. It makes you question the sanity of everything. Initially, it was first advertised as something ‘healthy.’ Many tobacco companies have turned to the invention of e-cigarettes to revive their sales back. It’s paid off literally! E-cigarettes are now rising as another alternative over the nicotine cigarettes. There is still a lot of interest as to how tobacco affects health, how sinister the tobacco business is, and how ethical do factories and manufacturers create these products. E-cigarettes have nicotine in liquid form as the liquid is heated these get inhaled. It appears in different enticing flavours as well as various strengths. Users also believe they are less harmful as you don’t keep reaching out for it. Those who inhale/vape these liquids believe that they are solving the tobacco epidemic. The vape pen has liquid that contains propylene glycol and glycerol as the base to create the vapour, it is also speculated to have artificial flavours, nicotine, THC and cannabinoid (CBD) oil. On the side in favor of the argument, nicotine is present so there’s still more or less a risk of harm. There are cases of EVALI. EVALI stands for vaping use-associated lung injury. This disease is linked to e-cigarettes. Vitamin E acetate is illegally used as a thickener in these e-cigarettes making them lethal. Patients suffering from EVALI have to rely on medication to keep the lungs running, to keep up with the body’s immune system requirements that are essential day-to-day.
Scientists at NYU Langone Health realised that the effects of this vapour are that it has potential to alter the DNA damaging the lungs and hearts of mice, it also speeds up the carcinogenic reactions in their bodies. Nitrosamine is a known carcinogen in humans, not just rats. It can cause cancers of lung, brain, liver, kidney, bladder, stomach, esophagus, and the nasal sinus. JUUL has made a name for itself. Creating flavourful vaping devices that are popular in the US.
Source: Nicotine, a drug with future (documentary), Yale Medicine, ScienceDirect.
Credit: Wocomo DOCS.
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