The Pros And Cons Of Electronic Cigarettes

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Smoking takes more than 480,000 lives every year. One out of every five lives taken is from one of the many diseases of smoking. To make these deaths go down, the electronic cigarette was made up, but is it safer than regular cigarettes? Some people think electronic cigarettes are a healthy way to quit smoking, but they can lead to normal cigarettes, and they also made the amount of people smoking go up. Electronic cigarettes still are leading to people trying or doing normal cigarettes in some way. The use of people using cigarettes have gone up not down since e-cigarettes were made. Studies show that teens that use e-cigarettes are more likely to try regular cigarettes within two years. Studies also show that 20% of kids that have tried e-cigarettes tried normal ones within the next year. Teens that use electronic cigarettes can get hurt worse than people using real ones, so they are likely to use the regular ones so they don’t get hurt more than they would using e-cigarettes. Those are just some ways that electronic cigarettes are leading to normal cigarettes, which leads to more people smoking. …show more content…
Graphs show that the amount of people using normal cigarettes has gone down a little, but people using electronic cigarettes has gone way up. There has been higher rates of nicotine, which is in electronic cigarettes, that hasn’t been this high since the 1990’s. As more kinds of cigarettes come out, there is a higher chance of people using one of these types of cigarettes. Some people are still using normal cigarettes, but a large group of people are now using electronic cigarettes. With e-cigarettes coming out there has been a major increase, but is it