When e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market in 2007, they were promoted as a safer, healthier alternative to traditional, combustible cigarettes. The unintended consequence of vaping devices and e-cigarettes, however, is a new generation of vapers — teenagers — becoming addicted to nicotine.
“In just one year, from 2017 to 2018, the number of high school students using e-cigarettes nearly doubled,” said Adam Lippert, PhD, assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver.
2greys, as I read your post and attached article. It's amazing that there are more articles in more publicatons on vaping and the harm, the lung diseases it causes, and teenagers are addicted with many going on to regular cigarretes due to all the deaths and hospitalizations. And, life time lung diseases unknown and known.
I think this should be a eye opener the smoking they bet would just go away.....it's didn't and it's worse, plus add in pollution. Someone dropped the ball on lung diseases. We need some hero's.....it sure worked for heart disease, AIDS, and cancer....thank goodness for those.
It is the addiction that is the real stumbling block. Even when presented with all the consequences and perhaps personal failing health they just cannot quit.
I was just as guilty of the "it will not happen to me" syndrome and to be honest even when I was really ill and literally waking up unable to breath either in or out, I was still in denial. I did manage to quit though, out of sheer terror that I was about to die from respiratory failure. I looked on the internet regarding my symptoms and did see COPD mentioned but convinced myself that it was Asthma totally ignoring COPD because it was too serious to think about a was Cancer. 2 months later in A & E I got told the truth in a rather offhanded manner after an X-Ray revealed hyper inflated lungs. That addiction actually fooled me into thinking it was nothing serious, something to be fobbed off.
The rest is history, I actually managed to educate myself with the truth about the condition before joining here. The rest is history including the double whammy of developing Lung Cancer as well. I'm amazed that it all has not made me insane, or has it?
I have still yet to convince just one person to quit, despite all my efforts "It will never happen to me!", as they carry on smoking and that is the addiction talking.
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