Beech Tree News Network

E-cigarettes are battery powered smoking devices often designed to look and feel like regular cigarettes. They use cartridges filled with a liquid that contains nicotine, flavoring and other chemicals. A heating device in the e-cigarette converts the liquid into a vapor, which the person inhales. That’s why using e-cigarettes is known as “vaping.”
E-cigarettes are being marketed as a safe alternative to smoking, but they are not safe because e-cigarettes are still putting nicotine-a highly addictive drug- into the body.
E-cigarettes are not yet regulated as tobacco products, so there is very little information about the ingredients of liquids or the approximate exposure to harmful and potentially harmful constituents when using e-cigarettes over the short-term or long-term.
E-cigarettes and Kids
•    The rate of students who currently use electronic cigarettes has tripled from 2011 to 2013.
•    Youth are more likely to use e-cigarettes than any other tobacco product on the market.
•    Nearly one-third of teens who used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days have never tried a cigarettes.

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