The Negative Effects Of Electronic Cigarettes

In the article Smoke Signals by Alessandra Potenza, electronic cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, shows that the share of young people using e-cigarettes doubled in 2012. Some doctors believe that electronic cigarettes can help people that use traditional cigarettes quit. The CDC found that 1.8 million middle and high school students said that they have tried e cigarettes in 2012. Electronic cigarettes are proving to be healthier than traditional cigarettes, and may help smokers quit their addiction, but they still pose a threat to younger generations because of their nicotine content.
Electronic cigarettes were invented in China 10 years ago, by a pharmacist and a heavy smoker named Hon Lik. Hon came up of the idea after his father died of lung cancer from smoking. Electronic cigarettes are battery powered devices that vaporize liquid nicotine
Doctors are looking at e cigarettes as the long sought solution for one of the deadliest and most avoidable public health problem: Cigarette smoking accounts for almost half a million people died from cancer, emphysema, and heart disease every year in the U.S. A positive effect on electronic cigarettes is that, e cigarettes can help tobacco smokers quit. People suggest that smokers quit slightly more easily with e cigarettes than with other cessation aids like nicotine patches or gum. A negative effect with electronic cigarettes is that, e cigarettes might actually make it harder to kick the habit of smoking; that's because they can be smoked indoors some places they are allowed indoors are is in bars and workplaces, where traditional cigarettes are banned in many states and are made to resemble tobacco cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes are less hurtful to the body than traditional cigarettes. Companies should banned traditional cigarettes because of the damage they are doing to the