Make sure your family members know that vaping is not healthy, and while it may be healthier than smoking or a route to stop smoking, there are many other options to help people stop smoking that don’t affect your lungs.
Adding to the uncertainties about the health dangers is the fact that vaping liquids are available from a variety of sources from original manufacturers, to grey-market companies and local or home-made mixtures.While e-cigarettes were initially described as benefiting smokers, they quickly became attractive to non-smokers – particularly children.
Compounding the worry about this trend is that children and adolescents may be attracted by the various flavors of vaping liquids without understanding the health risk of the nicotine ingredients. Specifically, misconceptions among younger users include:Believing flavored vaping liquids do not contain nicotine.Not understanding that the products aren't addictive.
Not recognizing that "vaping" or "juuling" is not prohibited in the public places where smoking is banned. Aside from the lung damage noted above, nicotine has serious risks for a child's development. As the U.S. Surgeon General concludes, "adolescents can get addicted more easily than adults. The nicotine in e-cigarettes and other tobacco products can also prime the adolescent brain for addiction to other drugs such as cocaine.
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