Is it harmful to your health? Put away your curiosity and stay away from e-cigarettes

In recent years, the global e-cigarette market has developed rapidly, and the number of e-cigarette users has soared. In daily life, we often see some boys and girls like to use a fashionable item - e-cigarettes. Is it really harmless to health as the legend says?

What are e-cigarettes?

Electronic cigarettes are electronic products that imitate cigarettes, with the same smoke, taste and feel as cigarettes. They are products that mix nicotine and other substances in smoke through atomization and other means, and then let users inhale them.

The inhalation of electronic cigarettes relies on the airflow sensor, which senses the airflow when the smoker starts to inhale, and then activates the heating unit. The atomizer atomizes the smoke liquid into an aerosol and delivers it to the smoker.

The dangers of e-cigarettes

There is a strong association between using traditional tobacco (such as cigarettes) and trying e-cigarettes, and studies have shown that the dual use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes is high among e-cigarette users in China.

The chemical composition of smoke is complex, containing hundreds of harmful substances, at least 69 of which are carcinogens. Among them, nicotine has been proven to be more addictive than most drugs. Repeated use of nicotine can change the body's hemodynamics, cause insulin resistance, and promote the occurrence and development of cancer.

Children and adolescents are more sensitive to nicotine, which can easily affect their brain function, such as causing a decline in attention, learning ability, and impulse control ability, increasing the risk of future addiction, and excessive intake may be life-threatening.

In addition, WHO stated that certain heavy metals produced by the heating system of e-cigarettes, such as nickel and chromium, will increase the toxic effects on the human body. By comparing the immune cells in the noses of e-cigarette users, traditional cigarette users and non-smokers, it was found that smoking e-cigarettes can inhibit more than 300 immune genes in the human nose, while ordinary smokers have 53 immune genes inhibited. In terms of inhibiting the number of human immune genes, the harm of e-cigarettes is 7 times that of cigarettes.

Can e-cigarettes help people quit smoking?

There is no evidence that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking. On the one hand, the addictiveness of nicotine has been proven. On the other hand, the smoking behavior and muscle memory of "hand to mouth, mouth to hand" make it very likely that e-cigarette smokers will develop into traditional cigarette smokers.

Therefore, there is no harmless tobacco product, as long as you smoke, it is harmful to your health. There is sufficient evidence to show that compared with smoking ordinary cigarettes, smoking filter cigarettes, smoking "low tar cigarettes", and smoking electronic cigarettes will not reduce the harm caused by smoking.