Are E-Cigarettes Good Or Bad

Cigarettes cause over 400,000 preventable deaths in the United States alone each year. How many of those people were ones that you knew or even your family? Any smoker can die in the blink of an eye, they’ll be gone. Regular combustible cigarettes and electronic cigarettes are causing these deaths . As e-cigarettes are beginning to gain more and more popularity there are more people dying. Is this so called safe device really, safe? Not only do e-cigarettes cause death from the inside, they kill from the outside too, “[m]alfunctioning e-cigarette batteries and accidental activation of the heating element have spontaneously ignited fires in homes, on airplanes and in school gymnasiums, which prompted the issuance of a 2015 (FAA) Safety Alert,”
To begin with, e-cigarettes cause consumers to become ill and go to the hospital, for example, as stated by John Maa, “malfunctioning e-cigarette batteries and accidental activation of the heating elements have spontaneously ignited fires in homes, on airplanes, and in high school gymnasiums…” (Maa 3). E-cigarettes are causing damage to their consumers and people around them, also they are destroying public property and public transportation. Because of these deaths and injuries electronic cigarettes must be regulated by the government or else more people will die. Reports from the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) say that they are getting numerous Adverse Event Reports, “We regularly receive voluntary reports of Adverse Events involving e-cigarettes from consumers health professionals and concerned members of
While it is true that they have not yet been labeled clearly as tobacco products, they are made by tobacco manufacturers and the tobacco industry and have the same qualities as combustible cigarettes. So they should be regulated as a tobacco made product. The opposition cites John Maa saying e-cigarettes are not tobacco products., “The tobacco industry ha asserted that e-cigarettes are not a tobacco product and therefore are not subject to either regulation or taxation under the Tobacco Master Settlement…” (Maa 3). The is a mistake in their logic because in the same article it says that 22 nations worldwide are now regulating e-cigarettes as regular combustible cigarettes. The fact that the FDA can only regulate therapeutic e-cigarettes is false because there are places in the world that are and the rest of the world needs to start doing the same thing. The opposition also cites the FDA, when they say, “[the] FDA has issued a proposal rule that would extend the agency’s tobacco authority to cover additional products that meet the legal definition of a tobacco product such as e-cigarettes,” (FDA 1). The opposition argues that that is enough regulation, however, if that is regulation than there would not be young teen smoking harsh chemicals that slowly kill them. E-cigarettes are tobacco products and they need to be regulated as such. If parts of the world are