College students are hospitalized after smoking e-cigarettes. What are the dangers of e-cigarettes?

E-cigarettes are related to the occurrence of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, digestive system disease, neurological disease, and even the occurrence and development of cancer.

First of all, let’s understand the several harmful substances: nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide. Their effects are: addiction, causing your lungs to be black, and increasing the risk of cancer. There is no tar or carbon monoxide in e-cigarettes, but there is nicotine. The nicotine content of a cigarette is about 1.5-3mg. As it is heated and burned, about 20% will be absorbed. If a person smokes one cigarette a month, he will receive 80mg of nicotine a month. There are very few 6mg e-liquids like the one in the picture. People in their 80s smoke 3mg. The data in the picture is only the diluted amount. Smoking an e-cigarette will also heat it and dissipate it into the air, etc. So the absorption amount is about 20, so a bottle of e-liquid can be smoked for a month, which is 36mg.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s assessment of e-cigarettes is: E-cigarettes are a new and new thing, and the health effects of long-term use are still unknown.

E-cigarettes usually contain nicotine, which is harmful to fetal development and the cognitive development of young people under the age of 25.

From this point of view alone, manufacturers who advertise harmless products should be fined because this is false advertising. I haven’t mentioned here the ones that claim to clear the lungs and aphrodisiac! Manufacturers please take care of yourself!

Let’s talk about it. In this market that lacks supervision, a mixture of good and bad is the norm. The price of e-cigarettes on the market ranges from 50 yuan to 1,500 yuan. If you think about it, this is not a very advanced technology. Isn’t the reason why the price gap is so large is that it is all uneven?

This is indeed the case. The nicotine content in those e-liquids or cartridges fluctuates greatly, and many of them have higher nicotine content than real cigarettes. ?

In addition to nicotine, the aerosol of e-cigarettes is not completely harmless. They contain some tiny particles that may cause cancer, and may also contain some heavy metals and volatile mixtures [15]. Some studies also suggest vaping increases the risk of heart disease and cancer.

In short, e-cigarettes are not good for the body, but if the harm of flue-cured tobacco is 100, the harm of e-cigarettes is 80. The best thing you can do as a smoker is to quit smoking, so why not try e-cigarettes that are less harmful.