What Happens when you vape?

          Vaping is the action or practice of inhaling and exhaling vapor containing nicotine and flavoring produced by a device designed for this purpose. About one in every ten teens vape, or 2.5 million middle and highschool students in the U.S.. Using a vape can have many harmful effects on your body such as Asthma, Lung scarring (“popcorn lung”), Organ damage, Addiction, sometimes the start of smoking cigarettes, and some chemicals in e-liquids can lead to cancer. Probably worst of all is EVALI which is a serious lung condition that is caused by vaping, IT causes widespread damage to your lungs and can give you symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath and chest pain, and can also be fatal. An outbreak of EVALI in late 2019 and early 2020 put thousands of people in the hospital. At least 68 people died. Since then, EVALI cases have been declining, but people who vape can still get EVALI.

          Some would say that vaping is better than smoking and that smoking is better than vaping. Vaping is less harmful than smoking, but it’s still not safe. E-cigarettes heat nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals to create a smoke that you inhale. Regular tobacco cigarettes contain about 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic. While vapes contain chemicals, heavy metals, and water vapor that can harm the lungs, researchers are still investigating whether e-cigarettes are worse than standard cigarettes, but both are still not good.

          I think that vaping is a bad thing and that it’s sad that so many kids do it, some not knowing what can happen and some do and still do it. I feel like nowadays people think it's cool, others think they should do it because their friends are doing it or they are peer pressured into doing it. 

 

How do you feel about vaping?

What would you do if someone tried to make you vape?

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/21162-vaping 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/teen-vaping-rates-rise-nearing-pre-pandemic-levels-cdc-reports-rcna50994

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  • Great topic choice and well done Rilee! It was two days late.

  • I think vaping is very dumb. It's sad that kids do it and it is so pointless. You are literally breathing in flavored air. Vaping has only been around for a couple years and we don't know the long term affects yet. If someone tried to make me vape I would chuck it on the ground and destroy it.

  • I think that people can vape if they want to . It is a personal choice. Personally, I would not vape if someone tried to make me vape. Its bad for you and could potentially ruin your life. I agree with you because I fell like a lot of people are peer pressured in to doing it.

    • I agree with you that vaping is a personal choice, Vaping can damnage your body and have long-term side effects and it can ruin your life, I feel some people are peer presured into it by friends, or sometimes even people they arent friends with.

  • I think vaping is someones own choice and potentially loose a lot of money and many health benifits from it but it is there own desiciion wether they do it or not i will not discriminate on people who do it and if someone tried to make me do it I would walk away.

    • I agree with you it is their choice and its not only harmful for the body but it can cost lots of money, but it's their own decision  and they can do what they want nowadays more teens vape then most adult that are actually aloud to vape and not get in trouble with it but i also feel like some parents today don't care if their child does it or not.

  • I do not vape because it is very unhealthy. Although I do not have a problem with people vaping, that's their decision. If someone tried to make me vape I would respectfully say no. 

    • I agree with you it's unhealthy and bad for you, i don't care if people vape or not but i would rather them not do it because i may know what could happen from it and they may not but in the end it's their own decision and it they that have to deal with the out come of it.

  • Personally, I strongly dislike vaping because of how unhealthy and addicting it is, but I don't hate people who vape. I don't vape, but I know many people who do, and I have no problem with that because it's their choice. If someone offered me a vape, I would simply say no.

    • I agree with you that vaping is unhealthy and addicting, but i feel that there are people that could help you stop or different things you could do instead of vaping, I also know many people that vape and whenever they do it around me i just walk away because i don't want to be around them doing it.

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