E-cigarette Essay: Examining the Impact of E-cigarettes on Society

This essay examines the use of e-cigarettes in society, defining them as battery-operated devices that release vaporized nicotine. It explores the history of e-cigarettes, from their introduction in 2003 to their global expansion and the subsequent regulatory restrictions. The essay delves into two key advantages: their potential to aid smokers in quitting traditional tobacco and their perceived lower risk compared to tobacco cigarettes for those with mild asthma. Conversely, it discusses two major disadvantages: the presence of potentially harmful toxicants and chemicals that may damage DNA, and the impact on youth, including increased risks of respiratory problems. The essay concludes by acknowledging the controversial nature of e-cigarettes, balancing the benefits for smokers against the risks, especially for young users, and highlighting the need for further research, particularly regarding long-term health impacts and potential device malfunctions. The essay uses multiple academic sources to support the claims.

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This essay is focused on the use of E-cigarette in society. An E-cigarette is actually battery-
operated equipment that releases amounts of vaporized nicotine which is being inhaled by the
user. It offers almost same feeling of tobacco smoke without smoke. This essay is also focused
on two advantages and disadvantages of E-cigarette.
E-cigarette was introduced in the market in 2003 and was introduced in the Chinese market by
Hon LiK by Ruyan Company. After this device become famous in Asia and by offering internet
platform has increased its market reached on the global level (Mirbolouk et al., 2019). Marketers
strategy related to E-cigarette went viral and there has been noticing rapid increase in the use of
E-cigarette. In, 2019, Food and Drug administration of US has actually announced restrictions
linked to the consumption of flavored e-cigarette products. At present various researches have
two different opinions related to use of e-cigarette (Cullen et al., 2019).
One of the major advantages of this device is that it appears to be very helpful for those people
who are not able to quit smoking for a long time. These people are very much addicted to
tobacco and it has become very difficult for their body to quit this substance (Chen, Green, Fryer
& Borzekowski, 2019). Some believe that use of E-cigarette is offering an advantage to society
by lowering down use of tobacco in society. Direct consumption of tobacco is considered more
risky than consuming vaporized tobacco. In fact, even medical care is not able to help them in
quitting smoking. Another major advantage of this device is that E-cigarette appears to be less
risky than tobacco cigarette for people who are suffering from mild cases of asthma. People
suffering from asthma are always at risk of having an asthma attack by smoking and this device
is really helpful for these people in terms of health risk (Queloz & Etter, 2019).
According to various scholars, one of the major disadvantages of this E-cigarette is that this
device contains vaporized nicotine which is composed of toxicants that are not good for health in
long term (Voos et al., 2019). In addition, this device consists of such chemicals that have the
capability of damaging DNA of the user leading to cancer potential. Another major disadvantage
of E-cigarette use is that this device has a major impact on the health of youths. This device is
very famous in youths and therefore long time use increase risk of heavy cough and respiration
problem (Farrell & Hamby, 2019). But at the same time, various evidences have been explored
which focus on serious health issue related to E-cigarette. There were reports which have
mentioned serious illnesses and even death in some cases. Some researchers’ beleive that this
research is very limited and there is no evidence related to negative impact of E-cigarette on
respiration system of the person.
But it has been explored that pro and corns of E- cigarette has been a controversial topic because
various researchers believe that E-cigarette is a better substitute for chain smokers in terms of
health while other believe that E-cigarette increased the risk of chemical exposure to the body
which is already in stress (Gorski, 2019). Although evidence related to disadvantage of E-
cigarette is very limited because most of the experiments are conducted on animals. Therefore, is
also possibility of risk related to malfunction of E-cigarette because after all, it is an electric

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device or machine in which failure of elements may occur. Some believe that present generation
of E-generation is far better than its first generation which was equivalent to tobacco cigarettes
(Ho, Jones, Widdowson & Bahia, 2019). After exploring a lot of research papers, I believe that
E-cigarette device has both pros and corns if we view it from a different context. If we see E-
cigarette from the context of a chain smoker, it offers lot of advantages as compared to tobacco
cigarettes by reducing health-related risks. But if we see E-cigarette use from context of youth,
this device offers a lot of risk such as possible addiction related to flavor and style which may
lead to health-related issues in long term because after all, it is one form of cigarette.

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