University of Texas Medical Branch

While e-cigarettes or vaping may help some ***s quit smoking ***, new studies suggest it may start teens on cigarettes and lead to a lifetime of *** use. Studies show more teenagers are using e-cigarettes than traditional *** products. This may be because of marketing that targets teens using candy or fruit flavored e-cigarettes. Their peers also heavily influence them.In two thousand fourteen, a survey of those young people who used any *** or *** related product, found that sixty-three percent had used e-cigarettes prior to *** use. Teens believe e-cigarettes do not contain the ***-causing chemicals in traditional cigarettes. While studies do show that e-cigarettes have lower levels of ***-causing ingredients, they still emit substantial levels of carcinogens.E-cigarettes contain acrylonitrile, acrolein, propylene oxide, acrylamide and crotanaldehyde. Plus, the compounds in flavoring can also become toxic.In order to understand the path to *** use, researchers in the new study used simulation population models to compare smoking cessation versus vaping use. The model predicted that more than two thousand *** smokers would quit for at least seven years because of conversion to vaping. But it also predicted that nearly one-hundred-seventy-thousand young people would start with vaping and graduate to *** use. This math suggests the effects of e-cigarettes are far more negative than positive. The clincher is its conclusion that more than one and a half billion years of life would be lost due to e-cigarettes.