E-Cigarettes Use triples among US Teen

The use of e-cigarettes among the youth in recent years has been on the increase. Steps will have to be taken to tackle this hazardous trend.

The teens and young adults are most likely to succumb to the addiction of tobacco usage. And its employment in any way is a sign of danger. That is because it is addictive and can cause a number of symptoms. 

Recently, experiments were carried out on nine tobacco spinoffs: cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookahs, tobacco pipes, snus, dissolvable tobacco and bidis. 

E-cigarettes were the most widely used implements among middle ansd high school students. The use of hookahs went up too among this population sample. 

However, such traditional devices as cigarettes and cigars were being used less often which was a relief. The critical thing is nicotine, the main ingredient in tobacco. It effects the brain during that crucial window between adolescence and adulthood. And its effects can be everlasting.

The continued exposure to nicotine /4/not only cause addiction but lead to long term psychological dependence on the substance. According to the survey which spanned four years, most young people used these highly addictive agents at least once a day. Sometimes their frequency exceeded this too making the addiction hardcore. 

The various ethnicities were evenly distributed across these addictive substances. Especially worrisome was the trend of e-cigarettes which tripled from 2013 to 2014, according to a study conducted by CDC team. The traditional cigarette smokers decreased from 15.8% to 9.2% in the years 2011 – 2014.

Therefore the sum total product usage by young adults remains pretty much a constant. Many students prefer e-cigarettes since they come in a variety of flavors. And then there is the false assumption that they contain less nicotine than ordinary cigarettes.

The popularity ratings of these new “smokes” are getting more and more wilder with each passing day since they cause the rest to want to conform. They come in colorful patterns and have delicious fruity flavors to boot which only increases their appeal.

There are those who are fearful lest e-cigarettes become a stepping stone to more traditional fare. Whichever way you look at it from, cigarette smoking and tobacco use are bad habits. They cause every possible ailment from lung cancer to an increase in bad cholesterol.

Also nicotine makes the skin look ugly and wrinkled. The way smoke from tobacco caused plaque to be deposited on the insides of the lungs is something which is best avoided. And while the deleterious effects /4/not appear until well into middle age, they will ultimately catch up with the cigarette smoker.