Introduction
Attention-arousing and orienting material
Vaping has become a curse of the recent decade. Vapes are better than nicotine-containing cigarettes. Vapes do not harm the health of a smoker. Vapes are about vaping, not smoking. As one popular vape-producing company puts it, “live long and vape strong”. It seems that vapes create a new reality in which smoking could be safe. Well, what if I say that, in the US, in one week 12 people died because of vaping and 805 people were diagnosed with the breathing illness related to vaping (Pesce par. 1). If these statistics are not enough to give up vaping, the goal of the current speaker is to persuade that vapes are not as warm and fuzzy as companies want us to believe.
Credibility
Vaping is regarded as an escape for smokers who try to give up their addiction since the latter could substitute the former. Still, there are numerous sources that vaping is a decent and safe habit. The argument against vaping is backed by the results of the researches, the viewpoints of medical experts, and the experience of vapers. The importance of this topic is undeniable since even underaged people become addicted to vapes.
Thesis Statement
Vaping has numerous devastating effects and did not worth doing.
Preview of main points
There are two major reasons to give up a habitude of vape. Firstly, vaping is addictive and undermines the ability to self-control. Secondly, usage of a vape, even if it is nicotine-free, poses a health hazard and leads to diseases of the respiratory system.
Main Body
Vaping is addictive
It is a well-known fact that there are numerous kinds of vaping liquids. They have various chemical compositions, tastes, and smells. Some of them might contain nicotine, while others are free of it. The problem is that vaping causes addiction in any case.
One of the reasons for this is that vapes are regarded as tools to socialize and make new acquaintances (Levin par. 21).
In essence, new friends and a higher circle of socialization is positive outcome of vaping.
However, the issue lies in the fact that young people that are shy to make friends, for instance, during classes, start vaping to fit in with the team.
- Vice versa, if an individual intends to give up vaping, he or she might postpone this idea because of the fear to distance herself from the friends who use vapes.
- In the interview with the 21-years old man, Levin illustrates how strong the addiction might be (par. 16). Josh Evans avows that he inhales the vapors even though sometimes it makes him feel physically bad and fail to fight against vaping (Levin par.16).
- The final point worth being mentioned is that addiction to vaping leads to more serious addictions in the long-term perspective.
In two years, the number of young adults using vaping cartridges with the flavor of cannabis or nicotine increased more than twice (Pesce para.2).
According to the President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Matthew Myers, people that become addicted to vapes or e-cigarettes at a young age, grow into heavily smoking adults (Lemons 17).
(Transition: The fact that vapes triggers addiction would not be that important if it were not for the health hazard.)
Vaping is dangerous for health
Blaha informs that all lung fluid samples of people ill with “e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI)” show the presence of vitamin E acetate (par 6.).
From this, it could be inferred that vaping liquids contain chemicals that cause diseases of the respiratory system. Thus, even nicotine-free vapes could have a devastating effect on health.
Another point of concern about vaping is that hitherto remains a lot of doubts about how certain chemicals in liquids affect health (Blaha par. 9). Nevertheless, some studies confirm that vaping leads not only to asthma but also to cardiovascular disease (Blaha par.9).
Therefore, it could be argued that vaping remains an insufficiently studied phenomenon. The absence of a clear understanding of the consequences of vaping, as well as PR campaigns of brands that produce vapes and liquids, give a reason to think that vaping does not affect health. At the same time, the growing number of young people with breathing diseases makes them think that vaping is not as good as it might seem at the first sight.
(Transition: As you can notice, vaping has a significant number of disadvantages that should motivate people either not to try it or give up the habit.)
Conclusion
Summary statement
Vaping is not only addictive but also challenges the well-being of a vaper. In the scientific community, there is no common opinion on the effect of the chemicals that are included in the composition of vaping liquids. Notwithstanding this fact, the example of people diagnosed with EVALI proves that vaping represents a threat and that life would be better without this addiction.
Concluding remarks
Still, it is important to remember that our health and quality of life depend on our own choices. Vapes were not created by nature and human beings survived for centuries without smoking and vaping. I will leave you with the question: if the necessity to vape was not put in our bodies and minds by nature, do we need it?
Works Cited
Blaha, Michael Joseph. “5 Vaping Facts You Need to Know.” Health Conditions and Diseases, 2020. Web.
Lemons, Jane Fullerton. E-Cigarette Dilemma. CQ Press, 2019. Web.
Levin, Dan. “Vaping on Campus: No Parents, No Principals, a Big Problem.” The New York Times, 2019. Web.
Pesce, Nicole Lyn. “These Charts Show the Shocking Number of High School and College Students Who Vape.” Market Watch, 2019. Web.