In the past few years, the fight against smoking has reached its climax - the heads of many powers advocate a healthy lifestyle, the legislative base of an increasing number of states prohibits smokers from doing their dirty work in public places, and the cost of a pack of cigarettes increases every day. In this struggle, alternative methods of combating smoking are born. One of the most popular among these methods was the distribution of so-called electronic cigarettes.
Just a couple of years ago, electronic devices appeared on the world market, whose sellers began to position them as a real panacea for tobacco dependence. Devices called electronic cigarettes, their manufacturers touted as a great and safe alternative to regular cigarettes. But is this device so safe as its distributors say?
This article will help the reader understand what is harmful electronic cigarette for a smoker who decided to abandon traditional tobacco smoke in favor of this achievement of progress.
To begin with, the electronic cigarette also contains a considerable amount of nicotine. Therefore, the chance to earn a number of chronic diseases (including central nervous system disorders and myocardial infarction) in a person using an electronic cigarette instead of the usual one is almost the same as in any smoker. This is due to the fact that in any of its manifestations, nicotine remains a very toxic poison, causing irreversible effects in the body. And given the fact that in an electronic device it is difficult to limit the dose of one cigarette due to the lack of the “smoking” effect, its user can get even more nicotine than when smoking a regular cigarette.
But what is harmful about electronic cigarettes besides the presence of the same nicotine in them? First, the main disadvantage is that most e-cigarette liquids are made in China and often do not pass the proper checks. They can contain not only nicotine, but also a whole bunch of other deadly substances. If in the United States or Europe, the import of such products is taken quite seriously, then in the domestic market you can find many fakes or just low-quality goods.
Secondly, no harmful research center can say how harmful electronic cigarettes are in long-term use. This is due to the fact that such a variety of cigarettes has gained its wild popularity recently. How will smoking electronic cigarettes affect human health with long-term use, we can find out only after a few years. And up to this point, the use of this product can store the most unpleasant surprises.
Thirdly, let's not forget that various newfangled gadgets always attract the attention of young people. Thus, in the first place, curious adolescents and children who did not even go to high school can be hit by e-cigarette ads. Let's put aside for a moment the question of what electronic cigarettes are harmful for adults, and consider the option that now every student secretly from the teacher will be able to “light” such a device right in the classroom, in front of his enthusiastic classmates. And society needs to think about how to prevent the distribution of these products among our children as much as possible.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that this type of device has a number of advantages over ordinary cigarettes. But how harmful electronic cigarettes are and what danger they can be fraught with in themselves, a person can tell with accuracy only after a few years. The main thing is that when the answer sounds, it does not become an unpleasant surprise for the army of “electronic smokers”.