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A new study from the University of Cambridge reveals that e-cigarettes that are bubble gum or chocolate flavored attract children into trying and buying them. The vapor sticks are now the most widely used nicotine product for children in countries with strict tobacco control policies.

The Use of E-cigarettes by High Schoolers Tripled Between 2013 and 2014

The exact figures declare that the rate of high schoolers using e-cigarettes in the United States went up from 4.5% to over 13%. Middle school students using e-cigarettes using e-cigarettes went up from 1% to 4%. In England, use of these sticks in people between the ages of 11-18 went from 5% to 8%.

These findings have raised many concerns to the academia and regulatory bodies. The attraction that younger kids have to e-cigarettes might lead to tobacco use and addiction. As things stand, e-cigarettes are advertised in more than 8,000 flavors. These include anything from fruits to sweets. The candy-like flavoring is the most concerning, as younger people are more attracted to them.

Children Are Mostly Exposed to Sweet Flavored E-Cigarettes

The Cambridge study was published in the journal BMJ Tobacco Control. The researchers took 598 children and split them into three groups. One group was shown advertisements for candy-like flavored e-cigarettes while the second was shown ads for non-flavored cigarettes. The third group worked as the control group and saw no advertisements.

After the jump, the groups were asked questions in regards to the appeal of using e-cigarettes. They were asked about tobacco smoking, the harm in smoking and their reaction to the ads. The goal was to gauge if they were interested in buying and trying e-cigarettes. Group one responded that they liked the ads and had increased interest in buying and trying e-cigarettes. None of the groups expressed interest in tobacco smoking.

E-Cigarettes Are More Attractive than Medical Marijuana.

This study proves that e-cigarette smoking doesn’t make tobacco smoking more attractive. However, it doesn’t take away from the appeal of e-cigarettes themselves, which is also a nicotine product. There’s a lot that regulators need to take into account as e-cigarettes become more widespread.

There’s no exact study on the appeal of medical marijuana on kids though exposure might be at similar levels. However, using marijuana is a significant leap upwards in the scale of drug use for young people under 14 compared to e-cigarettes. Accessibility and financial feasibility are very different for medical marijuana. As it is introduced into several states with time, it will be regulated more closely. The same will definitely happen for e-cigarettes.

Candy E-Cigarettes Are More Tempting to Children than Medical Marijuana

Teens Like E-Cigarettes More than Marijuana and Cocaine - http://clapway.com/2016/01/07/teens-like-e-cigarettes-more-than-marijuana-and-cocaine-123/

New reports from the CDC claim that TV, print and online advertisements about e-cigarettes are specifically targeting teens in America. According to Center of Disease Control statistics, 7 out of 10 high school and middle school students are exposed to e-cigarette advertisements.

E-Cigarettes Have Great Marketing Teams

Companies that produce e-cigarettes are investing tens of millions of dollars to target American teenagers specifically. Most of them use similar themes: rebellion, independence, and sex. The tobacco industry did the same. This resulted in a peak in kids smoking and kids with tobacco addictions.

The point of e-cigarettes was to be an alternative to tobacco smoking in adults. They should not induce a smoking habit in teenagers. After decades of pushing back the trend, it is turning itself around. This is probably happening because e-cigarettes are not regulated as closely as they should be. Many organizations have encouraged governments to take action. Some flavors in e-cigarettes are known to give people diseases like popcorn lung among other health effects that have not been properly dealt with.

E-Cigarette Ads Will Soon Be Banned

Tobacco ads were banned in America as of 1971, and soon enough, the same will happen for e-cigarettes. Right now, nearly seventy percent of all teenagers are exposed to these ads. This makes them more vulnerable to nicotine addiction.

Between 2011 and 2014, advertising funds for e-cigarettes went from $6.4 million to $115 million. That’s a very significant change. Use of e-cigarettes in high school students rocketed to 13.4%. Use among middle school students went up to 3.9%.

Teens Prefer E-Cigarettes to Marijuana and Cocaine

Marijuana and cocaine are not widely advertised in the media. Because of that, e-cigarettes have become more popular. Nicotine is highly addictive. I can prime the human brain to become dependent on other substances. This kind of danger has to be avoided. Gateway drugs like alcohol and nicotine are probably the most dangerous.

How to Deal with the Threat of E-Cigarettes

The CDC has made several suggestions as to how this should be handled. The government could enforce a law that required tobacco and e-cigarette sellers to be a certain distance from schools. They could limit tobacco sales to places that do not admit students. This is probably the most reasonable way to handle this on the short-term. On the long term, e-cigarettes will follow the same path as traditional cigarettes and get banned completely from the media.

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Teens Like E-Cigarettes More than Marijuana and Cocaine

Toronto Cab Drivers vs Toronto Uber, A Showdown - http://clapway.com/2015/12/10/toronto-cab-drivers-vs-toronto-uber-a-showdown123/

Toronto Uber has been facing a lot of hostility, and a taxi driver was dragged over 20 meters in downtown area. In his defense, the taxi driver was only looking to get the Uber drivers’ attention.

Taxi Drivers in Toronto Are Protesting Uber

According to the taxi driver community, Uber drivers are violating bylaws and are cutting onto their bottom line. The driver involved in the incident, who has been in the business for 22 years, was looking to get the driver’s attention and enlighten him on the movement.

The incident was called ‘frightening’, and since then, Toronto Uber has spoken with both the Uber driver in question and the passenger involved. No one involved was harmed. The taxi driver was not unaggressive either, as he pounded on the Uber driver’s window as it was stopping near a traffic signal.

The confrontation begins when the taxi driver pounds on the window of the Honda as it’s stopped near a traffic light. He even tried to open the car’s side door, but in a natural reaction, the Uber driver drives on until it is forced to stop at the red light.

Will Toronto Uber Be Taken Down?

Many cities have protested against Uber, banning the service to make pick-ups at airports and other centers. Toronto has gone full scale, and not entirely in a positive way. The Toronto Mayor has discouraged these activities, and citizens are calling for the man in question to be arrested.

Violence leads nowhere, especially where it is uncalled for. Though there were many demonstrators, this is not the kind of publicity they would want to receive. Hopefully the man will be brought to justice as he should be. This bears badly for Uber as well, as there could have been a chance that the man was harmed, so the Uber driver involved is giving the company negative press as well.

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E-Cigarettes Smokers: You"ve Been Smoking Butter - http://clapway.com/2015/12/08/ecigarrettes-smokers-youve-been-smoking-butter123/

A team of researchers looked into the chemicals in 51 types of e-cigarettes and found something surprising: the buttery chemical found in microwave popcorn. The research was conducted by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and studied flavored e-cigarettes and liquids from popular sellers.

The Study’s Goal was to Fish for Diacetyl, Acetoin and 2, 3 -Pentanedione

Diacetyl is a chemical that has been found in connection with a respiratory disorder called bronchitis obliterans, nicknamed ‘popcorn lung’. This chemical is often found in the artificial flavoring of microwave popcorn. The disease has the nickname from a case discovered at a microwave popcorn processing plant, where workers inhaled too much of the artificial butter flavor and got the disorder. Acetoin was also found in the lungs of the infected workers.

If these compounds are declared unsafe for inhalation, the damage it is doing to e-cigarette smokers is tremendous. 47 of the examined e-cigarettes has, at least, one of the three chemicals. Diacetyl was found in 39 of the e-cigarette flavors; acetoin was present in 46, and 2,3-pentanedione in 23.

Chemicals in E-Cigarettes Are Not Safe for Inhalation

The common populace is pretty in the dark about the dangers of e-cigarettes. Just the fact that it uses vapor as opposed to tobacco automatically made them the safer alternative. However, a lot of chemicals in e-cigarette flavoring is not safe for inhalation, and there are still no safe limits set for them. Not to mention that these chemicals are especially attractive to children, which poses hazards that are unspeakable.

How Relevant Are These Findings to the E-Cigarette Market?

Since there are countless brands of e-cigarettes, it’s not certain how much concern this brings to the market overall. Supporters of e-cigarettes still maintain that it is a safer alternative to tobacco smoking and even that it help them quit smoking regular cigarettes. The only problem is that e-cigarettes aren’t as regulated as tobacco cigarettes, which is something the FDA will start to tackle as of 2016.

 

 

E-Cigarettes Smokers: You"ve Been Smoking Butter

Concerned about #health, the US National Park Service bans #ecigarettes in any area where traditional #smoking is banned. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/16/national-park-service-e-cigarettes123/

The issue of smoking has always been the focus of extensive debates, especially with regard to the kind of harm that it causes to the smoker and to people exposed to secondhand smoke. Although e-cigarettes, which are vapor based and laced with varying percentages of nicotine, have served as replacements for cigarettes, various reports have uncovered that they may include harmful and sometimes cancer-inducing chemicals, and that their use should be regulated and restricted accordingly.

The National Park Service Bans E-Cigarettes

In accordance with these reports, The National Park Service announced that electronic cigarettes are now banned in any areas where traditional smoking is prohibited in the United States.

The measure, according to the US News & World Report, was implemented to safeguard people’s health. Even though vapor from e-cigarettes do not easily pose a fire hazard (although its batteries do), it is uncertain whether or not secondhand vapor is harmful. Jonathan Jarvis, National Park Service Director, states that protecting the health and safety of park visitors and employees is one of the most critical duties of the Service, and thus the extension of the restrictions are needed.

The Reaction

Since there is little data on the long-term effects of vaping, health experts have begun to draw opposing policies in regard to public e-cigarette use. Supporters of e-cigarettes are naturally opposed to the new development. The restriction, for instance, was regarded as a bad idea by Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association trade group, despite the findings that e-cigarettes emit formaldehyde and toxic compounds also found in antifreeze. These advocates maintain that the decision to use the devices should be left up to the users.

More Cities to Implement the Rule

The NPS now joins an extending list of cities, which are banning the use of e-cigarettes in densely populated areas and in areas where conventional smoking is also prohibited, such as in New York City.

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One-fifth of teenagers who have smoked #ecigarettes admitted to also using the device for #vaping #weed, according to recent survey. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/08/e-joint-vaping-marijuana123/

One-fifth of teenagers who have smoked e-cigarettes admitted to also using the device for smoking pot, according to recent survey, which included responses from 3,800 students from five high schools in Connecticut.

Less than a decade ago, e-cigarettes were an obscure product marketed by a single company in China. Today, electronic cannabis delivery devices have turned into a trend among teenagers in the U.S.

Experimenting with vaporizers

As electronic cigarette use is increasing rapidly among high school students, researchers started to wonder if younger generations were inventive enough to use the devices to vaporize cannabis instead of e-juice.

“To better understand how students were using e-cigarettes or other portable vaporizing devices to vaporize cannabis, we asked students, ‘Which of the following have you used to smoke marijuana?"” scientists wrote in their new paper on the subject, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Vaping weed

Researchers found that of the teenagers who admitted to being so-called dual users – having smoked both e-cigs and marijuana – 29 percent said they had vaped dried pot leaves, while 23 percent had used e-cigarettes to vaporize hash oil, and 15 percent to vape THC-infused wax.

Unlike a spliff, which involves actual smoke and combustion, a vaporizer turns substances into aerosols that can be inhaled by the user. Little is known about the health effects of vaping pot versus smoking it.

Researchers believe teens may be using e-cigarettes to consume weed for the added potency, or because it’s harder to detect than smoking.

“When you vape cannabis, the smell is way less pungent and strong than it is when you smoke pot,” study co-author Meghan Rabbitt Morean, an assistant professor at Oberlin College said. “Everybody kind of knows that characteristic pot odor.”

The rise of the e-Joint

Businesses promoting liquid THC claim it contains “all of the healing benefits of cannabis without the psychoactive effects”. They argue it is the easiest way to consume cannabis for the novice user as it is difficult to smell and easier to transport than traditional marijuana.

“It’s possible that teenagers are using pot in a much less detectable way,” Morean says.

Researchers now know it’s happening, but more questions remain about who is consuming pot this way and the extent to which it is damaging. The next step is to collect similar evidence from other states across the U.S. to see if vaping cannabis is just a passing fad or a permanent trend.

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%Public Health England published a report proving #e-cigarettes 95 percent less hazardous than regular, "normal" #cigarettes; recommends them as quitting aid.% - http://clapway.com/2015/08/22/e-cigarettes-95-percent-less-harmful-than-smoking-110/

Public Health England, an agency of the British Department of Health, published a report which describes e-cigarettes as 95 percent less hazardous than the regular, “normal” cigarettes and recommends them as a quitting aid.

“Best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether,” Public Health England Chief Executive, Duncan Selbie, says while one of the study’s authors, Peter Hajek, professor at the Queen Mary University adds:

“My reading of the evidence is that smokers who switch to vaping remove almost all the risks smoking poses to their health.”

E-CIGARETTES DO NOT LEAD THE MASSES TO SMOKING

Anti-smoking activists and public health officials do not believe in vaping as a method for smokers to quit their unhealthy habit and believe that e-cigarettes are making smoking seem glamorous luring non-smokers into nicotine addiction.

The report though says that almost all of the 2,600,000 adults who use e-cigarettes in Great Britain used to be smokers and that most of them are using their devices in order to quit. In addition, less than 1% of adults and less than 1% of teenagers have become regular e-cig users without ever being smokers in the past.

In other words, as in the United States, smoking rates in the U.K. have decreased as vaping rates have risen and “there is no evidence so far that e-cigarettes are acting as a route into smoking for children or non-smokers.”

PHE’s report calculates that 44.8 percent of the population in Great Britain have not realized that e-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking. This number is quite small compared to the 65 percent of Americans who, according to a Reuters poll, believe that e-smoking is either worse than regular smoking or don’t know.

Related Post: Are E-Cigarettes Bad for Your Health?

Misleading pronouncements by anti-smoking organizations and public health agencies about vaping have made the masses believe that e-cigarettes may be, in fact, more dangerous than smoking. For example, CDC Director Tom Frieden says that “When it comes to tobacco products we really have to assume they’re dangerous until they’re proven safe, rather than the other way around.” However, e-cigarettes do not contain any tobacco at all.

E-CIGARETTES ARE NOT RISK FREE

This kind of misinformation may lead smokers to serious behaviors, making them believe that e-cigs are, at least, as harmful as normal cigarettes. This could keep million of smokers from quitting.

Kevin Fenton, PHE’s director of health and wellbeing, says:

“E-cigarettes are not completely risk-free, but when compared to smoking, evidence shows they carry just a fraction of the harm. The problem is people increasingly think they are at least as harmful, and this may be keeping millions of smokers from quitting,”

Ann McNeill, professor of psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience at King’s College London, who co-authored the study adds that in her view smokers should try vaping and vapers should stop smoking entirely, in order to prove that e-cigarettes could change everything in public health.

Report: E-cigarettes are 95 percent Less Harmful Than Smoking

Is there a correlation between #vaping and #smoking? - http://clapway.com/2015/08/18/teens-who-try-vaping-are-more-likely-to-start-smoking-325/

Teens who try e-cigarettes or vaping are four times more likely to start at least one of the traditional modes of consuming tobacco: cigarettes, cigars, and hookahs. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association outlines the research supporting this.

Is vaping the gateway to smoking?

The study was conducted among 9th graders from 10 public schools in California over a period of one year (Fall 2013-Fall 2014). From the pool of students, only those who had never smoked conventional cigarettes were chosen for the study. They were followed-up twice: six and twelve months after the study initiation.

They completed self-reported surveys at each of these time points answering questions about their usage of conventional tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, and hookah). Both the follow up time points showed higher consumption of conventional tobacco products among students who used e-cigarettes.

At the end of the study, they found that teens who smoked e-cigarettes were two and half times more likely to try cigarettes, five times more likely to smoke cigars, and three times more likely to use hookah. These results present new evidence that vaping at an early age could be putting teens at a risk of taking to conventional smoking in the future. However, the authors clearly state that this study doesn’t establish a causative relationship between vaping and smoking. This could mean that common risk factors may be driving teens to both e-cigarettes and smoking; one need not necessarily cause the other.

The rise of e-cigarette usage

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), usage of e-cigarettes has tripled between 2013 and 2014. This could have detrimental effects on their still developing brains, despite the fact that e-cigarettes have lower nicotine content. It is believed that adolescents are particularly vulnerable to ‘graduate’ to conventional tobacco use, as they are prone to risk-taking behavior and their developing brains are sensitized to the effects of nicotine.

Are e-cigarettes safer than conventional ones?

E-cigarettes were introduced as a healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes and as a means for adults to gradually quit smoking. It still remains so. It might only be problematic in the hands of impressionable adolescents whose brains might drive them to seek more nicotine as they grow up.

Did you know that e-cigarettes come in different flavors?

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Teens Who Try Vaping Are More Likely to Start Smoking

Check out where #ecigs fall in our #society -- complete w/ a really neat #infographic. - http://clapway.com/2015/07/26/new-statistics-hint-that-e-cigs-could-pave-the-way-to-quitting-for-good-334/

Even though electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have been around since 2004, it’s still slightly jarring to see someone smoking indoors when cigarettes are mostly banned from enclosed public spaces. That’s just one example on how e-cigs have shaped the way we view smoking, but could e-cigs actually be the first step in ditching the habit for good? Some statistics are starting to see a growing trend.

What are E-Cigs?

E-cigs have a few different names and come in a few different variants. There are e-cigs, vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems. No matter the name, they all set out to have the same effect: stimulate the feeling of smoking.

One of the biggest differences between a cigarette and an e-cig boils down to what’s inhaled. E-cig users inhale aerosol rather than smoke. There is a heater that atomizes a liquid solution, which contains propylene glycol, glycerin, water, nicotine, and various flavors.

A sensor inside the e-cig detects when a user is taking a drag, the heater vaporizes the nicotine held in a cartridge, a microprocessor controls the heater, an LED lights up when the user takes a drag, and it’s all powered by a battery.

Statistics Show That there are 2.5 Million E-Smokers

Accelerated Nursing put together an infographic to help highlight a few growing trends that have emerged from the latest e-cig fad.

Before diving into the nitty gritty, it should be known that while some initial studies show e-cigs to be healthier than smoking traditional cigarettes, they still have yet to be fully studied. According to the FDA’s website, researchers still don’t know all of the intended risks when using e-cigs, how much nicotine is being inhaled, and whether or not there are any real benefits to using them.

Drawing Conclusions from Statistics

According to the Accelerated Nursing infographic, there are currently 45 million smokers in the United States and there are an estimated 2.5 million e-smokers. From the pool of e-smokers, 62 percent of the users said that they’ve stopped smoking regular cigarettes (or cut back) since they started smoking e-cigarettes. Of those, 34.3 percent reported that they not only quit smoking cigarettes but also discontinued the use of e-cigs.

So, if initial reports are to be believed, these statistics show a trend of e-cigarettes having a positive effect on users who make the switch from regular to electronic. However, with there being more than 40 million people who are still using traditional cigarettes, there is still a lot of ground to cover.

Somewhat surprisingly, the majority of e-cig users are female, making up 60.5 percent of the pool while males make up the remaining 39.5 percent. And, not surprisingly, southern states make up the majority of users with 33 percent while the northeast states only make up 19 percent.

Unfortunately, Accelerated Nursing doesn’t give any demographic information regarding the statistics that revolve around how e-cigs help smokers quit, so while the infographic certainly insinuates that they could be an incremental step in helping someone quit for good, further study needs to be done in order to definitively say it actually works.


Source: Accelerated-Nursing.net

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Are E-Cigarettes Bad for Your Health? - http://clapway.com/2015/06/27/are-e-cigarettes-bad-for-your-health654/

Ever since their introduction into the market, electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, have raised a lot of questions from the health community. They have been both credited as a potential tool against smoking and deemed a gateway for those to begin smoking again. Either way they are looked at, the main question is to whether or not they are harmful to the health of those who use them.

Since their introduction, there has been a noticeable decline in the sale of traditional cigarettes. This is perhaps true due to those who want an alternative to the addictive and potentially deadly cigarette.

HOW DO THEY ACTUALLY WORK?

Electronic cigarettes use battery powered heating elements to vaporize a solution of either vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol with nicotine and added flavors.

Electronic cigarettes’ introduction into the world of smoking has been marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking actual cigarettes.

THERE’S A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM, complicating matters

There are currently about 500 different brands of electronic cigarettes offered in over 7,000 flavors. These different brands offer flavors often involving mixtures of nicotine, carcinogens and other toxins, just like the real cigarette.

So, can that really mean that vaporized tobacco is that much better for your health than actual cigarettes? According to the recent reports that have been released, the answer is likely a negative one. A lot of research has recently been done to see the effects of these electronic cigarettes.

ITS HARD TO DETERMINE ACTUAL RISKS BECAUSE OF number of BRANDS AND FLAVORS

The sheer number and variety of different brands and flavors being offered has made it difficult for researchers to make a clear assessment of this technology’s health impacts.

There aren’t any studies showing the long term effects of electronic cigarette smoking, but it is known that the overall effect on the body is negative. The lack of studies showing the long term effects has the health community at odds with each other. Some of the other studies that have been done have been compromised by conflicts of interest. Either way, the State of California issued a warning against e-cigarettes back in January, stating that they are harmful and can easily lead to nicotine poisoning. Especially strong was the state’s warning against leaving E-cigarettes within the reach of children.

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