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The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts?

The US is cracking down on vaping while the UK is promoting e-cigarettes as an aid to giving up smoking. Where does the truth lie? By Sarah Boseley

G one With the Smoke is already no more than a distant whiff of bubblegum-flavoured vapour. The vape shop and lounge, one of many in San Francisco, has been forced to close. So have Vapor Den (“eclectic lounge & hipster go-to”) and Happy Vape. From late January, it became illegal to sell e-cigarettes and e-liquids in San Francisco. Even online sales to addresses within the city limits have been stopped. Stores outside the city that dispatch e-cigarettes to an SF postcode will face prosecution.

While vaping is banned, sales of legal marijuana and tobacco will continue as usual. San Francisco has often been considered more progressive than the rest of the US in its approach to drugs and unorthodox lifestyles: marijuana was legalised in California for medical use in 1996, after a campaign by Aids activists from the city, and for recreational use in 2016. Vaping , on the other hand, has crossed a line.

Behind the outright ban on sales of e-cigarettes in San Francisco is a panic about teenagers vaping. More than one in four American teens have tried vaping, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 12% of 16- and 17-year-olds were addicted to nicotine, and raised the alarm about the effect of nicotine on the adolescent brain. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently described the use of e-cigarettes as a “crisis among America’s youth”.

“San Francisco has never been afraid to lead. That will always be the case when the health of our children is on the line,” announced the San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera in a statement after the ban was passed by the the city legislature last June. He was scathing about the FDA’s failure to control e-cigarette sales. “Now, youth vaping is an epidemic. If the federal government is not going to act to protect our kids, San Francisco will,” he said.

In the UK, meanwhile, the medical establishment is endorsing vaping as an aid to giving up smoking. My local vape shop in London is colourful, thriving, offers a panoply of flavours and displays a banner the length of its storefront proclaiming: “Vaping is 97% safer than smoking, according to NHS and Cancer Research UK.” (The correct figure is 95%, according to a report in August 2015 by Public Health England, PHE, the government executive agency and watchdog that offers guidelines on health protection issues.)

A transatlantic schism has opened up over vaping and health. In the US, the war on vaping is being pursued by activists, politicians and scientists who believe that tobacco companies are cynically promoting e-cigarettes as a means to get people addicted to nicotine, which will – sooner or later – lead them to cigarettes. In the UK, anti-smoking campaigners and health experts counter that for many adult smokers, vaping offers the best hope of avoiding a premature death.

The two sides periodically break into open hostilities. The claim by PHE that vaping is 95% safer than smoking tobacco, frequently quoted by e-cigarette manufacturers and sellers, has been criticised as misleading by anti-smoking campaigners in the US. Matt Myers, who heads the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington DC, the biggest anti-smoking organisation in the world, has called the 95%-safer figure “mere fiction”.

Prof Ann McNeill of King’s College London, a tobacco and addiction expert who advises PHE, defends its position. “We are battling against misinformation on a massive scale,” she says. McNeill acknowledges there has been a rise in vaping among kids in the US and Canada, but does not see it as a reason for panic. “I don’t think it merits discussion of an ‘epidemic’. That word is overblown,” she said.

The soaring popularity of vaping among the young in the US is largely down to Juul – a tiny black or chrome device that looks like a USB stick and fits into the palm of the hand. In 2004, two design graduate students came up with the idea for an electronic alternative to smoking. They launched Juul in 2015, which quickly defined the market; by July 2019, Juul accounted for 75% of US e-cigarette sales. Since then, its fortunes have taken a dive. The company is accused, in dozens of lawsuits from San Diego to New York City, of targeting young users via social media campaigns featuring youthful models. Opponents claim Juul pods are easier for novice vapers to inhale, since they contain nicotine salts instead of straight nicotine, further softened with teen-friendly flavourings such as mango, cool cucumber and creme brulee. Juul has repeatedly denied it has marketed to teens.

There was fresh alarm in the US last year when 2,500 cases of lung disease and 55 deaths were associated with vaping. E-cigarettes work by heating liquid containing nicotine to produce vapour, which is then inhaled. There is no smoke or tar involved, but there are small amounts of chemical flavourings, including diacetyl, which has been linked to lung disease, and propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin. If the e-liquid overheats, formaldehyde can be formed. In fact, none of these chemicals were to blame in these cases – it turned out that the people who fell ill were using bootleg devices containing cannabis – but the reputational damage was done.

In the wake of this alarming spate of hospitalisations and deaths, the New York state governor, Andrew Cuomo, took emergency action in September, attempting to ban flavoured e-cigarette products. President Trump entered the fray , telling the FDA to act and imposing a temporary ban on any flavours that might appeal to young people. In December, New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, signed a law banning flavours. “Manufacturers of fruit and candy-flavoured e-cigarettes are intentionally and recklessly targeting young people,” said Cuomo, citing flavours including bubblegum, cotton candy and Captain Crunch. The state ban was overturned in January 2020 by Justice Catherine Cholakis, who said it was an overreach.

In the UK, the NHS continues to edge as close as it can to approving the use of e-cigarettes to quit smoking. NHS hospitals in the West Midlands have sanctioned vape stores on the premises , while PHE launched, via YouTube, a video showing two white-coated experts with bell jars demonstrating how e-cigarettes are free of all the disgusting and damaging tar in a conventional cigarette.

The science is furiously disputed. Academics on both sides are accused of cherry-picking data to suit their own prejudices. PHE is a global authority on health issues such as vaccination and obesity, but on vaping, it is looking increasingly isolated. Deborah Arnott, head of Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) in the UK, says that Britain is losing ground in the e-cigarette debate because of the virulent campaign in the US against vaping. “The noise is causing problems in how we are perceived,” Arnott said. “We’re being written off.”

W hat should be settled by science has become a clash of faiths. In the US, the debate is dominated by those who believe people should “just say no” to drugs. In the UK, there is more support for the idea of “harm reduction”, in which addicts take controlled amounts of their drug, be it alcohol, heroin or in this case, nicotine, to keep them stable.

PHE’s support for e-cigarettes as a tool to help people quit smoking is shared by other respected health bodies, such as the Royal College of Physicians and Cancer Research UK. They point out that the UK regulates smoking and vaping far more rigorously than the US. The UK has rules on age, and health warnings, and caps on the nicotine content. Marketing to young people is forbidden – e-cigarettes cannot be advertised on TV. There is less nicotine in Juul pods or e-cigarette cartridges sold in the UK: Juul in the US contains up to 59mg per ml, while nicotine levels in e-cigarettes across Europe are capped at 20mg per ml by an EU directive enshrined in British law. In the US, at this point, there is no middle ground between unrestricted sales and an outright ban.

A still from PHE’s video demonstrating how vapes are free from the tar and damaging substances found in cigarettes.

All sides agree that vaping nicotine is safer than getting it from cigarettes. Nicotine by itself is “relatively harmless”, according to the NHS , while the harm from cigarettes is in the smoke produced by burning tobacco and the residue of tar it leaves, which damages the airways, causing lung disease and cancer.

“People smoke for nicotine but they die from the tar,” wrote Michael Russell, a professor in addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and a pioneer of harm reduction, in 1976. His work laid the foundations for the introduction of nicotine replacement therapy – the nicotine patches and gum the NHS hands out today.

Russell, who died in 2009, wanted to develop a low-tar cigarette that would be high in nicotine, to give smokers the hit they wanted without inhaling more deeply. His research on the low tar product was funded by the tobacco company RJ Reynolds, now owned by British American Tobacco (BAT). This relationship with a tobacco company, which Russell later claimed was normal practice at the time, is now seen as fatally compromising. It has since been used to undermine his research and attack his reputation.

Ann McNeill, who worked with Russell as a young researcher, believes he was ahead of his time. “His pioneering research improved the quality of life of smokers and saved the lives of many more,” she said in a paper celebrating Russell, co-written with Debbie Robson of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies. “It is a sad indictment of our community that his work is still not recognised adequately by all those working in tobacco control, some of whom still fail to recognise the centrality of nicotine in tobacco use and the implications of this.”

Anti-tobacco activists – whether they are for or against e-cigarettes – believe they are defending the gains they have made in the battle against smoking. Vaping’s defenders say the tobacco firms are diversifying into a product that won’t kill their customer base. Hardline opponents are convinced e-cigarette sales will keep the hated tobacco companies in business.

The major tobacco companies – Philip Morris, Imperial, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco – did not take long to realise the potential of e-cigarettes, and all are now players in the vaping business. Blu, launched in the US in 2009 by an Australian entrepreneur, was bought by Lorillard Tobacco, and later acquired by the British company Imperial. In 2013, BAT launched Vype. In 2015, RJ Reynolds, makers of Camel and Lucky Strike, produced Vuse, which was the most popular brand in the US before Juul came along. Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, acquired a 35% stake in Juul.

Most scientists and health campaigners in the US will have no dealings with the tobacco industry, because of its history of devious marketing practices and underhand tactics. Under the terms of a World Health Organization (WHO) treaty in the early 00s, governments agree not to have any discussions with tobacco industry representatives (over trade terms, for example, taxation, regulation or investment). But anti-smoking campaigners now fear that, by promoting the benefit of their e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking, tobacco companies are acquiring respectability. WHO shares that anxiety and has advised measures to control e-cigarettes. Many countries, including Brazil, Thailand, Singapore, the Seychelles and Uruguay, have banned e-cigarettes as a result, while others have imposed regulations limiting their use.

A number of health professionals and academics have dedicated their careers to exposing lies about the safety of tobacco products and stopping the promotion of cigarettes around the world. Recent hard-won victories include smoking bans in public spaces and plain packaging with severe health warnings. Despite their efforts, there are still over 1 billion smokers in the world. The global cigarette market was worth $888bn (£682bn) in 2018 and forecast to rise to $1,124bn by 2024.

Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine at the Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco, is the loudest of the anti-tobacco lobbyists – in his choice of Hawaiian shirts as well as his pronouncements. Glantz claims he was agnostic when e-cigarettes first appeared. He isn’t now. In December, he tweeted : “Using e-cigs increases exposure to toxic chemicals for most users; they would be better off just smoking.”

This was a new extreme, even for Glantz. Alex Berezow, vice-president of scientific affairs at the American Council on Science and Health, described the tweet as “mind-boggling”. “Unfortunately, Dr Glantz has become something of an ideologue. His (justifiable) animosity toward the tobacco industry has been turned (unjustifiably) to other industries, such as vaping,” he wrote on his blog. The research paper that had prompted Glantz’s tweet, Berezow pointed out, actually shows that e-cigarette users get less exposure to toxic chemicals than tobacco smokers – not more.

Glantz, who you have to interrupt if you want to ask a question, told me that in the tweet, he was talking about dual-users – people who are both smoking and vaping. “Maybe it was worded inarticulately,” he conceded. But he won’t back down. He claims the evidence suggests that most people are dual users (in the UK, about a third of vapers are still smoking as well, according to a survey by YouGov).

A giant in the anti-tobacco lobby, Glantz does not understand how researchers he respects can support vaping. Glantz claims that confidence in e-cigarettes, at PHE and among the UK scientists who condone it, is starting to crack. He is convinced the “95% safer” figure is wrong. It came from a paper published in 2014 by a group of experts led by David Nutt – the former government drugs adviser famous in the UK for declaring that ecstasy and LSD were safer than alcohol, which led to his sacking.

“The Nutt paper had no evidence whatsoever. It was 12 guys who sat around and pulled that number out of the air,” said Glantz. “The most generous thing you can say about that paper is that it was much earlier in the process and there wasn’t a lot of evidence out there.” He believes the credibility of Nutt’s group has been undermined by revelations that they were part-funded by a consultancy called EuroSwiss Health, run by Delon Human, a South African doctor who has accepted funding from BAT for some of his ventures.

Nutt says that’s nonsense. The group comprised 12 world experts. “Has [Glantz] ever read the paper?” he said. “There are 14 variables in that paper [possible harms, such as death from cancer]. It looks at the effect of 12 different forms of nicotine on 14 variables. And I bet he wouldn’t actually disagree with any of them.” He gives an example. “Does he actually think that tobacco is not much more harmful than vaping on the likelihood of lung cancer?” The paper, he said, “comes up with an answer he doesn’t want. That’s why he thinks it’s bad science.”

Nutt, a professor in neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, says he is “saddened” by Glantz’s attacks. “He was a hero of mine. He was one of the pioneers in demolishing the myth that tobacco wasn’t addictive and opposing the fraud and misinformation and lies of the tobacco industry. But the problem is he is still basically playing the same tune and we’re now in a different era.” It’s proven impossible to stop people selling tobacco, Nutt said. “So the anti-tobacco people have got to attack something else, because that’s what they do – they attack and they ban. So basically they’ve fixed their wagons against vaping because it is one thing they can ban, and they’re very successful. It’s laughable that in India people go to prison for selling vaping when the government allows advertising of tobacco.”

Glantz became an icon of the anti-tobacco movement after he received 4,000 leaked documents from Brown and Williamson, then the US’s third-biggest tobacco company, in 1994. They proved the industry knew that smoking caused cancer and had hidden it. Since then, Glantz has always objected vigorously to any compromise with the industry. In 1997, a deal was broached with the tobacco industry by Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. It would have brought in tight federal regulatory control of cigarettes, prohibiting the sort of advertising and marketing that is still ubiquitous in the US, as well as sales to children. But Glantz was opposed to any deal that would allow cigarette manufacturers to continue in business. His goal was to close them down altogether. Myers was stymied by his own allies, and the US still does not have the anti-tobacco regulations that are common in Europe.

Myers is calm and quietly authoritative. He is not against harm reduction, he says. Nor are other public health bodies such as the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association. “All of us have said that under appropriate circumstances, if e-cigarettes are shown to actually significantly help smokers quit or switch completely, and that there are rules in place to prevent them being marketed in a way that doesn’t unduly impact youth, we would be supportive,” he said.

Up until now, on a national level, the US has had no regulatory control of e-cigarette sales, marketing, minimum age, or limits on nicotine content. “It’s the wild west,” said Myers. Tobacco-Free Kids has brought legal action against the FDA over its failure to regulate e-cigarette use and last year won a ruling from a federal judge that there was no excuse for further delay. The e-cigarette companies are irresponsible too, Myers added.

Myers says both sides in the argument interpret scientific studies according to their prior beliefs. He describes PHE’s “95% safer” figure as worthless, because not enough research has been done. “I have very little doubt that e-cigarettes under appropriate circumstances are significantly less harmful to a smoker. Do we know exactly how much less harmful? The answer is no, because we have no clue how much nicotine it is delivering, how pure they are, what else they’re putting in them. Comparing it to the most lethal product ever created, for public relations purposes, is not helpful.”

I n March 2018, Myers and Glantz, as well as representatives of PHE and almost every other influential anti-smoking scientist or campaigner, attended the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Cape Town – just up the road from BAT’s South Africa HQ. At this meeting, held every two years, activists can discuss the perfidy of the industry, celebrate their successes and plan for the future.

Nobody connected with the tobacco industry is allowed in the building. The WHO’s Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005, lays down recommended anti-smoking measures for governments, from taxing cigarettes to marketing controls and smoking bans in enclosed public places. It has been signed by 168 countries (the US is a notable exception). The Framework document says governments “need to be alert to any efforts by the tobacco industry to undermine or subvert tobacco control efforts” and must limit their contact to the absolute minimum. Activists now take this to mean there must be an impenetrable wall between themselves and anyone in any way connected with tobacco.

The man who did as much as anyone to establish the Framework Convention while an executive director of WHO, Derek Yach – originally from Cape Town but now based in the US – finds himself on the wrong side of that wall. Yach was pointedly excluded from the conference in his home city – and yet much of the conversation was about him. Yach had done the unthinkable: accepting almost $1bn over 12 years from Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro and other leading brands, to set up his Foundation for a Smokefree World in New York in 2017 to fund research into alternatives to tobacco.

As part of its commitment to a “smokefree future”, Philip Morris International is heavily promoting its e-cigarettes and Iqos, a cigar-shaped electronic device designed to heat, rather than burn, tobacco. “These products will one day replace cigarettes,” it says on its website, claiming to be moving on from tobacco products because “society expects us to act responsibly”. Iqos has taken off in Japan, where 3 million people regularly use them. Smoking there was declining by 2% a year before Iqos arrived, and is now dropping by 10% per year, for which Philip Morris International claims the credit.

Yach believes it’s in the tobacco companies’ interests to develop products that will leave conventional cigarettes behind. His erstwhile colleagues believe he is working for the devil. Why, they ask, does Philip Morris still sell cigarettes if it cares about the world’s health?

As rumours circulated that Yach was in the building or lurking outside, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York and funder of vast amounts of anti-tobacco science and programmes, was launching his own campaign. Striding down the hallway, flanked by purple banners emblazoned with the words Bloomberg Philanthropies, the financial backer of the conference and his entourage made their way to the TV cameras to discuss his Stop initiative. Bloomberg announced he has set aside $20m to counter the lies of the tobacco industry. Top of the watch list was Yach’s Foundation.

Attorney general Letitia James announces a lawsuit by the state of New York against e-cigarette maker Juul.

Bloomberg helps pay for WHO’s work on tobacco. I was offered a five-minute audience – just long enough to ask if he thinks there’s a role for e-cigarettes in combating smoking. “It is like marijuana: one of the stupid things we’re doing is legalising it,” he said. “I think there’s no place for e-cigarettes. I think it’s a terrible idea.”

Yach claims that “A-grade scientists and researchers around the world” are picking up grants from his foundation and doing useful work, but few believe he can succeed. He admits he was taken aback by the strength of feeling. “I wasn’t completely naive about it, but I didn’t actually appreciate how harsh it would be, particularly from a pretty small bunch of people who have incredible influence at WHO,” he says.

Clive Bates, the former head of the UK’s Ash, who blogs and campaigns for e-cigarettes from his home in Nigeria – he is married to the British High Commissioner – said he was amazed by the anti-vaping anger in Cape Town. “It was like a cult, almost,” he said. “Particularly the attacks on the foundation. It’s quite an achievement for Derek to create an institution that has a worse reputation than Philip Morris.”

However, Robert West, a professor of health psychology and director of tobacco studies at UCL, says: “It is playing out beautifully [for Philip Morris]. [The Foundation] has got the tobacco control community arguing among itself and divided. Result.”

I n the UK, a small number of prominent public health academics vehemently oppose e-cigarettes. Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Simon Capewell, professor of clinical epidemiology at Liverpool, believe the tobacco companies are using e-cigarettes as a route back to respectability. Sally Davies, until recently the UK’s chief medical officer (the most senior government adviser on public health matters), backs a ban on flavours that might attract children. She’s worried that we don’t know the long-term health effects of vaping, which she described as a “ticking time bomb”.

Ann McNeill says there is not much growth in vaping among kids in the UK. Her key concern would be a rise in vaping among young people who have never smoked, but there’s no sign of that. She thinks the key to reducing youth uptake is “getting adult smoking down”, because young people tend to imitate their elders’ behaviour.

She feels she and her colleagues at PHE have been unfairly attacked for saying vaping is 95% safer than smoking tobacco. She points out that they never said it was harmless . A 5% risk of harm, she insisted, “is not an insubstantial number”. She feels that the statement has been twisted as if PHE had said vaping was completely safe.

There is evidence that smoking is going down as e-cigarette use goes up, both in the UK and in the US. In 1942, 82% of British men smoked. By 2006, when e-cigarettes first appeared, 22% of adults in England smoked. The number of smokers is now at an all-time low of 14.7%, while 7% of the UK population are vaping regularly. Bans on smoking in public places, no-logo cigarette packaging with gruesome pictures of tumours, and the removal of cigarettes from sight in shops have all had an impact, but, McNeill says: “All the evidence, I believe, points to e-cigarettes playing a role.”

The best evidence that vaping helps people stop smoking comes from a study showing that e-cigarettes double the quitting success rate compared to gum or other aids. Peter Hajek from Queen Mary University of London and colleagues carried out the trial among more than 880 people who went to the NHS for help to give up smoking. Half were given nicotine replacement therapy in whatever form they wanted, such as patches or gum. The other half were given a starter e-cigarette kit and encouraged to buy their own when it ran out. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2019, showed that, at a year, the quit rate in the e-cigarette group was twice that of the nicotine replacement group, 18% versus 9.9%.

Of course, it did not satisfy the critics. When the researchers went back to the subjects after a year, most of the e-cigarette group were still vaping, whereas few of the ex-smokers in the other group were still chewing gum. So, they insisted, the study showed just how addictive e-cigarettes are.

Juul, once the leading e-cigarette, is struggling against public outrage and bad press. Sales have dropped and hundreds of staff have been laid off. The company said to be worth $38bn in 2018 was written down to $24bn by Altria in October last year, and valued at just $19bn by one of its major investors, Tiger Global Management, in December.

In the storm over child users, and anticipating an FDA ban, Juul stopped selling its fruit medley and mango flavours in the US in October and even dropped mint the following month. In January, the FDA acted, banning all flavours except tobacco and menthol from e-cigarettes that use a cartridge – as the Juul devices do. These are the devices kids use, said the FDA: flavours will not be banned from the refillable e-cigarettes that are more popular with adults. The FDA is also finally getting going on regulation, and has instructed manufacturers of e-cigarettes to apply for a right to trade by May.

The WHO, taking its cue from the US and from Bloomberg, has advised countries to control vaping, warning about the unknown impact on health and stating that e-cigarettes are risky for teenage brains, as well as for the foetus. That may leave the UK isolated, a lone bastion where (highly regulated) vaping is actually encouraged in the hopes of cutting smoking rates. Many public health experts in the UK believe they are witnessing an unnecessary tragedy, and that failure to promote the most promising method of helping people quit smoking is endangering the lives of millions.

McNeill insists public health experts in the UK do care about young people. But those whose lives are at risk are adults living in disadvantaged communities, who cannot kick their smoking habit. “I have lived with smokers and watched smokers die. You want them to do anything they can to prevent them from smoking.”

This article was amended on 19 February 2020: to clarify that Altria is the parent company of Philip Morris USA and that Iqos is a product of Philip Morris International and to correct an error in attributing a quote from the WHO’s Framework Convention for Tobacco Control.

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Advertisements on the Effect of Smoking Do not Smoke” the campaign was meant to discourage the act of smoking among the youngsters, and to encourage them to think beyond and see the repercussions of smoking.
“Thank You For Smoking” by Jason Reitman Film Analysis Despite the fact that by the end of the film the character changes his job, his nature remains the same: he believes himself to be born to talk and convince people.
Smoking Cessation Programs Through the Wheel of Community Organizing The first step of the wheel is to listen to the community’s members and trying to understand their needs. After the organizer and the person receiving treatment make the connection, they need to understand how […]
Smoking and Its Negative Effects on Human Beings Therefore, people need to be made aware of dental and other health problems they are likely to experience as a result of smoking.
Hookah Smoking and Its Risks The third component of a hookah is the hose. This is located at the bottom of the hookah and acts as a base.
Causes and Effects of Smoking in Public The research has further indicated that the carcinogens are in higher concentrations in the second hand smoke rather than in the mainstream smoke which makes it more harmful for people to smoke publicly.
Summary of “Smokers Get a Raw Deal” by Stanley Scott Lafayette explains that people who make laws and influence other people to exercise these laws are obviously at the top of the ladder and should be able to understand the difference between the harm sugar […]
Ban Smoking in Cars Out of this need, several regulations have been put in place to ensure children’s safety in vehicles is guaranteed; thus, protection from second-hand smoke is an obvious measure that is directed towards the overall safety […]
Aspects of Anti-Smoking Advertising Thus, it is safe to say that the authors’ main and intended audience is the creators of anti-smoking public health advertisements.
Smoking Among Teenagers as Highlighted in Articles The use of tobacco through smoking is a trend among adolescents and teenagers with the number of young people who involve themselves in smoking is growing each day.
Teenage Smoking and Solution to This Problem Overall, the attempts made by anti-smoking campaigners hardly yield any results, because they mostly focus on harmfulness of tobacco smoking and the publics’ awareness of the problem, itself, but they do not eradicate the underlying […]
Smoking and Its Effect on the Brain Since the output of the brain is behavior and thoughts, dysfunction of the brain may result in highly complex behavioral symptoms. The work of neurons is to transmit information and coordinate messengers in the brain […]
Smoking Cessation and Health Promotion Plan Patients addicted to tobacco are one of the major concerns of up-to-date medicine as constant nicotine intake leads to various disorders and worsens the health state and life quality of the users.
How Smoking Cigarettes Effects Your Health Cigarette smoking largely aggravates the condition of the heart and the lung. In addition, the presence of nicotine makes the blood to be sticky and thick leading to damage to the lining of the blood […]
Virginia Slims’ Impact on Female Smokers’ Number Considering this, through the investigation of Philip Morris’ mission which it pursued during the launch of the Virginia Slims campaign in 1968-1970 and the main regulatory actions undertaken by the Congress during this period, the […]
Smoking Culture in Society Smoking culture refers to the practice of smoking tobacco by people in the society for the sheer satisfaction and delight it offers.
Should Cigarettes Be Banned? Essay Banning cigarette smoking would be of great benefit to the young people. Banning of cigarette smoking would therefore reduce stress levels in people.
Smoking Ban and UK’s Beer Industry However, there is an intricate type of relationship between the UK beer sector, the smoking ban, and the authorities that one can only understand by going through the study in detail The history of smoking […]
Health Promotion for Smokers The purpose of this paper is to show the negative health complications that stem from tobacco use, more specifically coronary heart disease, and how the health belief model can help healthcare professionals emphasize the importance […]
Gender-Based Assessment of Cigarette Smoking Harm Thus, the following hypothesis is tested: Women are more likely than men to believe that smoking is more harmful to health.
Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation Prabhat Jha is the author of the article “The Hazards of Smoking and the Benefits of Cessation,” published in a not-for-profit scientific journal, eLife, in 2020.
The Impact of Warning Labels on Cigarette Smoking The regulations requiring tobacco companies to include warning labels are founded on the need to reduce nicotine intake, limit cigarette dependence, and mitigate the adverse effects associated with addiction to smoking.
Psilocybin as a Smoking Addiction Remedy Additionally, the biotech company hopes to seek approval from FDA for psilocybin-based therapy treatment as a cigarette smoking addiction long-term remedy.
Tobacco Smoking: The Health Outcomes Tobacco smoke passing through the upper respiratory tract irritates the membrane of the nasopharynx, and other organism parts, generating copious separation of mucus and saliva.
Investing Savings from Quitting Smoking: A Financial Analysis The progression of interest is approximately $50 per year, and if we assume n equal to 45 using the formula of the first n-terms of the arithmetic progression, then it comes out to about 105 […]
Smoking as a Community Issue: The Influence of Smoking A review of the literature shows the use of tobacco declined between 1980 and 2012, but the number of people using tobacco in the world is increasing because of the rise in the global population.
Smoking Public Education Campaign Assessment The major influence of the real cost campaign was to prevent the initiation of smoking among the youth and prevent the prevalence of lifelong smokers.
Smoking Cessation Therapy: Effectiveness of Electronic Cigarettes Based on the practical experiments, the changes in the patients’ vascular health using nicotine and electronic cigarettes are improved within one-month time period. The usage only of electronic cigarettes is efficient compared to when people […]
Quitting Smoking and Related Health Benefits The regeneration of the lungs will begin: the process will touch the cells called acini, from which the mucous membrane is built. Therefore, quitting the habit of smoking a person can radically change his life […]
Smoking and Stress Among Veterans The topic is significant to explore because of the misconception that smoking can alleviate the emotional burden of stress and anxiety when in reality, it has an exacerbating effect on emotional stress.
Smoking as a Predictor of Underachievement By comparing two groups smoking and non-smoking adolescents through a parametric t-test, it is possible to examine this assumption and draw conclusions based on the resulting p-value.
Smoking and the Pandemic in West Virginia In this case, the use of the income variable is an additional facet of the hypothesis described, allowing us to evaluate whether there is any divergence in trends between the rich and the poor.
Anti-Smoking Policy in Australia and the US The anti-smoking policy is to discourage people from smoking through various means and promotion of a healthy lifestyle, as well as to prevent the spread of the desire to smoke.
Smoking Prevalence in Bankstown, Australia The secondary objective of the project was to gather and analyze a sufficient amount of auxiliary scholarly sources on smoking cessation initiatives and smoking prevalence in Australia.
Drug Addiction in Teenagers: Smoking and Other Lifestyles In the first part of this assignment, the health problem of drug addiction was considered among teens and the most vulnerable group was established.
Anti-Smoking Communication Campaign’s Analysis Defining the target audience for an anti-smoking campaign is complicated by the different layers of adherence to the issue of the general audience of young adults.
Smoking as a Risk Factor for Lung Cancer Lung cancer is one of the most frequent types of the condition, and with the low recovery rates. If the problem is detected early and the malignant cells are contained to a small region, surgery […]
Smoking Cessation Project Implementation In addition, the review will include the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence presented in the literature while identifying gaps and limitations.
Maternal and Infant Health: Smoking Prevention Strategies It is known that many women know the dangers of smoking when pregnant and they always try to quit smoking to protect the lives of themselves and the child.
A Peer Intervention Program to Reduce Smoking Rates Among LGBTQ Therefore, the presumed results of the project are its introduction into the health care system, which will promote a healthy lifestyle and diminish the level of smoking among LGBTQ people in the SESLHD.
Tackling Teenage Smoking in Community The study of the problem should be comprehensive and should not be limited by the medical aspect of the issue. The study of the psychological factor is aimed at identifying the behavioral characteristics of smoking […]
Peer Pressure and Smoking Influence on Teenagers The study results indicate that teenagers understand the health and social implications of smoking, but peer pressure contributes to the activity’s uptake.
Smoking: Benefits or Harms? Hundreds of smokers every day are looking for a way to get rid of the noose, which is a yoke around the neck, a cigarette.
The Culture of Smoking Changed in Poland In the 1980-90s, Poland faced the challenge of being a country with the highest rates of smoking, associated lung cancer, and premature mortality in the world.
The Stop Smoking Movement Analysis The paper discusses the ideology, objective, characteristics, context, special techniques, organization culture, target audience, media strategies, audience reaction, counter-propaganda and the effectiveness of the “Stop Smoking” Movement.”The Stop Smoking” campaign is a prevalent example of […]
Health Promotion Plan: Smokers in Mississippi The main strategies of the training session are to reduce the number of smokers in Mississippi, conduct a training program on the dangers of smoking and work with tobacco producers.
Smoking Health Problem Assessment The effects of smoking correlate starkly with the symptoms and diseases in the nursing practice, working as evidence of the smoking’s impact on human health.
Integration of Smoking Cessation Into Daily Nursing Practice Generally, smoking cessation refers to a process structured to help a person to discontinue inhaling smoked substances. It can also be referred to as quitting smoking.
E-Cigarettes and Smoking Cessation Many people argue that e-cigarettes do not produce secondhand smoke. They believe that the e-fluids contained in such cigarettes produce vapor and not smoke.
Introducing Smoking Cessation Program: 5 A’s Intervention Plan The second problem arises in an attempt to solve the issue of the lack of counseling in the unit by referring patients to the outpatient counseling center post-hospital discharge to continue the cessation program.
Outdoor Smoking Ban in Public Areas of the Community These statistics have contributed to the widespread efforts to educate the public regarding the need to quit smoking. However, most of the chronic smokers ignore the ramifications of the habit despite the deterioration of their […]
Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Adult Smokers With a Psychiatric Disorder The qualitative research methodology underlines the issue of the lack of relevant findings in the field of nicotine replacement therapy in people and the necessity of treatment, especially in the early stages of implementation.
Smoking and Drinking: Age Factor in the US As smoking and drinking behavior were both strongly related to age, it could be the case that the observed relationship is due to the fact that older pupils were more likely to smoke and drink […]
Poland’s Smoking Culture From Nursing Perspective Per Kinder, the nation’s status as one of Europe’s largest tobacco producers and the overall increase in smoking across the developing nations of Central and Eastern Europe caused its massive tobacco consumption issues.
Smoking Cessation Clinic Analysis The main aim of this project is to establish a smoking cessation clinic that will guide smoker through the process of quitting smoking.
Cigarette Smoking Among Teenagers in the Baltimore Community, Maryland The paper uses the Baltimore community in Maryland as the area to focus the event of creating awareness of cigarette smoking among the teens of this community.
Advocating for Smoking Cessation: Health Professional Role Health professionals can contribute significantly to tobacco control in Australia and the health of the community by providing opportunities for smoking patients to quit smoking.
Lifestyle Management While Quitting Smoking Realistically, not all of the set goals can be achieved; this is due to laxity in implementing them and the associated difficulty in letting go of the past lifestyle.
Smoking in the Actuality The current use of aggressive marketing and advertising strategies has continued to support the smoking of e-cigarettes. The study has also indicated that “the use of such e-cigarettes may contribute to the normalization of smoking”.
Analysis of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act The law ensures that the FDA has the power to tackle issues of interest to the public such as the use of tobacco by minors.
“50-Year Trends in Smoking-Related Mortality in the United States” by Thun et al. Thun is affiliated with the American Cancer Society, but his research interests cover several areas. Carter is affiliated with the American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program.
Pulmonology: Emphysema Caused by Smoking The further development of emphysema in CH can lead to such complications caused by described pathological processes as pneumothorax that is associated with the air surrounding the lungs.
Smoking and Lung Cancer Among African Americans Primarily, the research paper provides insight on the significance of the issue to the African Americans and the community health nurses.
Health Promotion and Smoking Cessation I will also complete a wide range of activities in an attempt to support the agency’s goals. As well, new studies will be conducted in order to support the proposed programs.
Maternal Mental Health and Prenatal Smoking It was important to determine the variables that may lead to postpartum relapse or a relapse during the period of pregnancy. It is important to note that the findings are also consistent with the popular […]
Nursing Interventions for Smoking Cessation For instance, the authors are able to recognize the need to classify the level of intensity in respect to the intervention that is employed by nurses towards smoking cessation.
Smoking and Cancer in the United States In this research study, data on tobacco smoking and cancer prevalence in the United States was used to determine whether cancer in the United States is related to tobacco smoking tobacco.
Marketing Plan: Creating a Smoking Cessation Program for Newton Healthcare Center The fourth objective is to integrate a smoking cessation program that covers the diagnosis of smoking, counseling of smokers, and patient care system to help the smokers quit their smoking habits. The comprehensive healthcare needs […]
Smoking Among the Youth Population Between 12-25 Years I will use the theory to strengthen the group’s beliefs and ideas about smoking. I will inform the group about the relationship between smoking and human health.
Risks of Smoking Cigarettes Among Preteens Despite the good news that the number of preteen smokers has been significantly reducing since the 1990s, there is still much to be done as the effects of smoking are increasingly building an unhealthy population […]
Public Health Education: Anti-smoking Project The workshop initiative aimed to achieve the following objectives: To assess the issues related to smoking and tobacco use. To enhance the health advantages of clean air spaces.
Healthy People Program: Smoking Issue in Wisconsin That is why to respond to the program’s effective realization, it is important to discuss the particular features of the target population in the definite community of Wisconsin; to focus on the community-based response to […]
Health Campaign: Smoking in the USA and How to Reduce It That is why, the government is oriented to complete such objectives associated with the tobacco use within the nation as the reduction of tobacco use by adults and adolescents, reduction of initiation of tobacco use […]
Smoking Differentials Across Social Classes The author inferred her affirmations from the participant’s words and therefore came to the right conclusion; that low income workers had the least justification for smoking and therefore took on a passive approach to their […]
Cigarette Smoking Side Effects Nicotine is a highly venomous and addictive substance absorbed through the mucous membrane in the mouth as well as alveoli in the lungs.
Long-Term Effects of Smoking The difference between passive smoking and active smoking lies in the fact that, the former involves the exposure of people to environmental tobacco smoke while the latter involves people who smoke directly.
Smoking Cessation Program Evaluation in Dubai The most important program of this campaign is the Quit and Win campaign, which is a unique idea, launched by the DHCC and is in the form of an open contest.
Preterm Birth and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy The major finding of the discussed research is that both preterm birth and maternal smoking during pregnancy contribute, although independently, to the aortic narrowing of adolescents.
Enforcement of Michigan’s Non-Smoking Law This paper is aimed at identifying a plan and strategy for the enforcement of the Michigan non-smoking law that has recently been signed by the governor of this state.
Smoking Cessation for Patients With Cardio Disorders It highlights the key role of nurses in the success of such programs and the importance of their awareness and initiative in determining prognosis.
Legalizing Electronic Vaping as the Means of Curbing the Rates of Smoking However, due to significantly less harmful effects that vaping produces on health and physical development, I can be considered a legitimate solution to reducing the levels of smoking, which is why it needs to be […]
Drinking, Smoking, and Violence in Queer Community Consequently, the inequality and discrimination against LGBTQ + students in high school harm their mental, emotional, and physical health due to the high level of stress and abuse of various substances that it causes.
Self-Efficacy and Smoking Urges in Homeless Individuals Pinsker et al.point out that the levels of self-efficacy and the severity of smoking urges change significantly during the smoking cessation treatment.
“Cigarette Smoking: An Overview” by Ellen Bailey and Nancy Sprague The authors of the article mentioned above have presented a fair argument about the effects of cigarette smoking and debate on banning the production and use of tobacco in America.
“The Smoking Plant” Project: Artist Statement It is the case when the art is used to pass the important message to the observer. The live cigarette may symbolize the smokers while the plant is used to denote those who do not […]
Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant In this respect, T-test results show that mean birthweight of baby of the non-smoking mother is 3647 grams, while the birthweight of smoking mother is 3373 grams. Results show that gestation value and smoking habit […]
The Cultural Differences of the Tobacco Smoking The Middle East culture is connected to the hookah, the Native American cultures use pipes, and the Canadian culture is linked to cigarettes.
Ban on Smoking in Enclosed Public Places in Scotland The theory of externality explains the benefit or cost incurred by a third party who was not a party to the reasoning behind the benefit or cost. This will also lead to offer of a […]
Alcohol and Smoking Abuse: Negative Physical and Mental Effects The following is a range of effects of heavy alcohol intake as shown by Lacoste, they include: Neuropsychiatric or neurological impairment, cardiovascular, disease, liver disease, and neoplasm that is malevolent.
Smoking Prohibition: Local Issues, Personal Views This is due to the weakening of blood vessels in the penis. For example, death rate due to smoking is higher in Kentucky than in other parts of the country.
Smoking During Pregnancy Issues Three things to be learned from the research are the impact of smoking on a woman, possible dangers and complications and the importance of smoking cessation interventions.
The Smoking Problem: Mortality, Control, and Prevention The article presents smoking as one of the central problems for many countries throughout the world; the most shocking are the figures related to smoking rate among students. Summary: The article is dedicated to the […]
Tobacco Smoking: Bootleggers and Baptists Legislation or Regulation The issue is based on the fact that tobacco smoking also reduces the quality of life and ruins the body in numerous ways.
Smoking: Causes and Effects Considering the peculiarities of a habit and of a disease, smoking can be considered as a habit rather than a disease.
Smoking Behavior Under Clinical Observation The physiological aspect that influences smokers and is perceived as the immediate effect of smoking can be summarized as follows: Within ten seconds of the first inhalation, nicotine, a potent alkaloid, passes into the bloodstream, […]
Smoking Causes and Plausible Arguments In writing on the cause and effect of smoking we will examine the issue from the point of view of temporal precedence, covariation of the cause and effect and the explanations in regard to no […]
Smoking and Its Effects on Human Body The investigators explain the effects of smoking on the breath as follows: the rapid pulse rate of smokers decreases the stroke volume during rest since the venous return is not affected and the ventricles lose […]
Post Smoking Cessation Weight Gain The aim of this paper is to present, in brief, the correlation between smoking cessation and weigh gain from biological and psychological viewpoints.
Marketing a Smoking Cessation Program In the case of the smoking cessation program, the target group is made up of smokers who can be further subdivided into segments such as heavy, medium, and light smokers.
Smoking Cessation for Ages 15-30 The Encyclopedia of Surgery defines the term “Smoking Cessation” as an effort to “quit smoking” or “withdrawal from smoking”. I aim to discuss the importance of the issue by highlighting the most recent statistics as […]
Smoking Qualitative Research: Critical Analysis Qualitative research allows researchers to explore a wide array of dimensions of the social world, including the texture and weave of everyday life, the understandings, experiences and imaginings of our research participants, the way that […]
Motivational Interviewing as a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Patients With Cancer The dependent variable is the cessation of smoking in 3 months of the interventions. The study is based on the author’s belief that cessation of smoking influences cancer-treated patients by improving the efficacy of treatment.
Factors Affecting the Success in Quitting Smoking of Smokers in West Perth, WA Australia Causing a wide array of diseases, health smoking is the second cause of death in the world. In Australia, the problem of smoking is extremely burning due to the high rates of diseases and deaths […]
Media Effects on Teen Smoking But that is not how an adult human brain works, let alone the young and impressionable minds of teenagers, usually the ads targeted at the youth always play upon elements that are familiar and appealing […]
“Passive Smoking Greater Health Hazard: Nimhans” by Stephen David The article focuses on analyzing the findings of the study and compares them to the reactions to the ban on public smoking.
Partnership in Working About Smoking and Tobacco Use The study related to smoking and tobacco use, which is one of the problematic areas in terms of the health of the population.
Cigar Smoking and Relation to Disease The article “Effect of cigar smoking on the risk of cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer in Men” by Iribarren et al.is a longitudinal study of cigar smokers and the impact of cigar […]
Quitting Smoking: Motivation and Brain As these are some of the observed motivations for smoking, quitting smoking is actually very easy in the sense that you just have to set your mind on quitting smoking.
Health Effects of Tobacco Smoking in Hispanic Men The Health Effects of Tobacco Smoking can be attributed to active tobacco smoking rather than inhalation of tobacco smoke from environment and passive smoking.
Smoking in Adolescents: A New Threat to the Society Of the newer concerns about the risks of smoking and the increase in its prevalence, the most disturbing is the increase in the incidences of smoking among the adolescents around the world.
The Importance of Nurses in Smoking-Cessation Programs When a patient is admitted to the hospital, the nursing staff has the best opportunity to assist them in quitting in part because of the inability to smoke in the hospital combined with the educational […]
Smoking and Youth Culture in Germany The report also assailed the Federal Government for siding the interest of the cigarette industry instead of the health of the citizens.
New Jersey Legislation on Smoking The advantages and disadvantages of the legislation were discussed in this case because of the complexity of the topic at hand as well as the potential effects of the solution on the sphere of public […]
Environmental Health: Tabaco Smoking and an Increased Concentration of Carbon Monoxide The small size of the town, which is around 225000 people, is one of the reasons for high statistics in diseases of heart rate.
Advanced Pharmacology: Birth Control for Smokers The rationale for IUD is the possibility to control birth without the partner’s participation and the necessity to visit a doctor just once for the device to be implanted.
Legislation Reform of Public Smoking Therefore, the benefit of the bill is that the health hazard will be decreased using banning smoking in public parks and beaches.
Female Smokers Study: Inferential Statistics Article The article “Differential Effects of a Body Image Exposure Session on Smoking Urge between Physically Active and Sedentary Female Smokers” deepens the behavioral mechanisms that correlate urge to smoke, body image, and physical activity among […]
Smoking Bans: Protecting the Public and the Children of Smokers The purpose of the article is to show why smoking bans aim at protecting the public and the children of smokers.
Clinical Effects of Cigarette Smoking Smoking is a practice that should be avoided or controlled rigorously since it is a risk factor for diseases such as cancer, affects the health outcomes of direct and passive cigarette users, children, and pregnant […]
Public Health and Smoking Prevention Smoking among adults over 18 years old is a public health issue that requires intervention due to statistical evidence of its effects over the past decades.
Smoking in the US: Statistics and Healthcare Costs According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco smoking is the greatest preventable cause of death in the US.
Smoking Should Be Banned Internationally The questions refer to the knowledge concerning the consequences of smoking and the opinions on smoking bans. 80 % of respondents agree that smoking is among the leading causes of death and 63, 3 % […]
Microeconomics: Cigarette Taxes and Public Smoking Ban The problem of passive smoking will be minimized when the number of smokers decreases. It is agreeable that the meager incomes of such families will be used to purchase cigarettes.
Tobacco Debates in “Thank You for Smoking” The advantage of Nick’s strategy is that it offers the consumer a role model to follow: if smoking is considered to be ‘cool’, more people, especially young ones, will try to become ‘cool’ using cigarettes.
Alcohol and Smoking Impact on Cancer Risk The research question is to determine the quantity of the impact that different levels of alcohol ingestion combined with smoking behavioral patterns make on men and women in terms of the risks of cancer.
Teenagers Motivated to Smoking While the rest of the factors also matter much in the process of shaping the habit of smoking, it is the necessity to mimic the company members, the leader, or any other authority that defines […]
Indoor Smoking Restriction Effects at the Workplace Regrettably, they have neglected research on the effect of the legislation on the employees and employers. In this research, the target population will be the employees and employers of various companies.
Hypnotherapy Session for Smoking Cessation When I reached the age of sixty, I realized that I no longer wanted to be a smoker who was unable to take control of one’s lifestyle.
Stopping Tobacco Smoking: Lifestyle Management Plan In addition, to set objective goals, I have learned that undertaking my plan with reference to the modifying behaviour is essential for the achievement of the intended goals. The main intention of the plan is […]
Smoking Epidemiology Among High School Students In this way, with the help of a cross-sectional study, professionals can minimalize the risk of students being afraid to reveal the fact that they smoke. In this way, the number of students who smoke […]
Social Marketing: The Truth Anti-Smoking Campaign The agreement of November 1998 between 46 states, five territories of the United States, the District of Columbia, and representatives of the tobacco industry gave start to the introduction of the Truth campaign.
Vancouver Coastal Health Smoking Cessation Program The present paper provides an evaluation of the Vancouver Coastal Health smoking cessation program from the viewpoint of the social cognitive theory and the theory of planned behavior.
Smoking Experience and Hidden Dangers When my best college friend Jane started smoking, my eyes opened on the complex nature of the problem and on the multiple negative effects of smoking both on the smoker and on the surrounding society.
South Illinois University’s Smoking Ban Benefits The purpose of this letter is to assess the possible benefits of the plan and provide an analysis of the costs and consequences of the smoking ban introduction.
Smoking Cessation in Patients With COPD The strategy of assessing these papers to determine their usefulness in EBP should include these characteristics, the overall quality of the findings, and their applicability in a particular situation. The following article is a study […]
Smoking Bans: Preventive Measures There have been several public smoking bans that have proved to be promising since the issue of smoking prohibits smoking in all public places. This means it is a way of reducing the exposure to […]
Ban Smoking Near the Child: Issues of Morality The decision to ban smoking near the child on father’s request is one of the demonstrative examples. The father’s appeal to the Supreme Court of California with the requirement to prohibit his ex-wife from smoking […]
The Smoking Ban: Arguments Comparison The first argument against banning smoking employs the idea that smoking in specially designated areas cannot do harm to the health of non-smokers as the latter are supposed to avoid these areas.
Smoking Cessation and Patient Education in Nursing Pack-years are the concept that is used to determine the health risks of a smoking patient. The most important step in the management plan is to determine a date when the man should quit smoking.
Philip Morris Company’s Smoking Prevention Activity Philip Morris admits the existence of scientific proof that smoking leads to lung cancer in addition to other severe illnesses even after years of disputing such findings from health professionals.
Tobacco Smoking and Its Dangers Sufficient evidence also indicates that smoking is correlated with alcohol use and that it is capable of affecting one’s mental state to the point of heightening the risks of development of disorders.
Cigarette Smoking and Parkinson’s Disease Risk Therefore, given the knowledge that cigarette smoking protects against the disease, it is necessary to determine the validity of these observations by finding the precise relationship between nicotine and PD.
Tuberculosis Statistics Among Cigarette Smokers The proposal outlines the statistical applications of one-way ANOVA, the study participants, the variables, study methods, expected results and biases, and the practical significance of the expected results.
Smoking Habit, Its Causes and Effects Smoking is one of the factors that are considered the leading causes of several health problems in the current society. Smoking is a habit that may be easy to start, but getting out of this […]
Status of Smoking around the World Economic factors and level of education have contributed a lot to the shift of balance in the status of smoking in the world.
Redwood Associates Company’s Smoking Ethical Issues Although employees are expected to know what morally they are supposed to undertake at their work place, it is the responsibility of the management and generally the Redwood’s hiring authority to give direction to its […]
Smokers’ Campaign: Finding a Home for Ciggy Butts When carrying out the campaign, it is important to know what the situation on the ground is to be able to address the root cause of the problem facing the population.
Mobile Applications to Quit Smoking A critical insight that can be gleaned from the said report is that one of the major factors linked to failure is the fact that smokers were unable to quit the habit on their own […]
Behavior Modification Technique: Smoking Cessation Some of its advantages include: its mode of application is in a way similar to the act of smoking and it has very few side effects.
Quitting Smoking: Strategies and Consequences Thus, for the world to realize a common positive improvement in population health, people must know the consequences of smoking not only for the smoker but also the society. The first step towards quitting smoking […]
Effects of Thought Suppression on Smoking Behavior In the article under analysis called I suppress, Therefore I smoke: Effects of Thought Suppression on Smoking Behavior, the authors dedicate their study to the evaluation of human behavior as well as the influence of […]
Suppressing Smoking Behavior and Its Effects The researchers observed that during the first and the second weeks of the suppressed behavior, the participants successfully managed to reduce their intake of cigarettes.
Smoking Cessation Methods
Understanding Advertising: Second-Hand Smoking
People Should Quit Smoking
Importance of Quitting Smoking
Cigarette Smoking in Public Places
Ban of Tobacco Smoking in Jamaica
Anti-Smoking Campaign in Canada
Electronic Cigarettes: Could They Help University Students Give Smoking Up?
The Change of my Smoking Behavior
Psychosocial Smoking Rehabilitation
The Program on Smoking Cessation for Employees
Tips From Former Smokers (Campaign)
Combating Smoking: Taxation Policies vs. Education Policies
The Program to Quit Smoking
Possible Smoking Policies in Florida
Smoking Ban in the State of Florida
Core Functions of Public Health in the Context of Smoking and Heart Disease
Smoking: Pathophysiological Effects
Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?
Smoking Bans in US
Smoking as Activity Enhancer: Schizophrenia and Gender
Health Care Costs for Smokers
Medical Coverage for Smoking Related Diseases
Exposure to mass media proliferate smoking
The Realm of reality: Smoking
Ethical Problem of Smoking
The Rate of Smoking Among HIV Positive Cases.
Studying the Government’s Anti-Smoking Measures
Smoking Should Be Banned In the United States
Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Theory on Smoking Cessation
Effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation
Wayco Company’s Non-smoking Policy
Adverse Aspects of Smoking
Negative Impacts of Smoking on Individuals and Society
Dealing With the Increase in the Number of Smokers Between Ages 17 and 45
Cannabis Smoking in Canada
Smoking Ban in the United States of America
Dangers of Smoking Campaign
Smoking Ban in New York
Smoking and Adolescents
Trends in Smoking Prevalence by Race/Ethnicity
Business Ethics: Smoking Issue
Should Smoking Tobacco Be Classified As an Illegal Drug?
Where Does the Path to Smoking Addiction Start?
Public Health Communication: Quit Smoking
Are Estimated Peer Effects on Smoking Robust?
Are There Safe Smoking and Tobacco Options?
What Are the Health Risks of Smoking?
Does Cigarette Smoking Affect Body Weight?
Does Cigarette Smuggling Prop Up Smoking Rates?
What Foods Help You Quit Smoking?
How Can People Relax Without Smoking?
Does Education Affect Smoking Behaviors?
Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking?
Do Movies Affect Teen Smoking?
What Is Worse: Drinking or Smoking?
Does Smoking Affect Breathing Capacity?
Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer?
Does Having More Children Increase the Likelihood of Parental Smoking?
Does Smoking Cigarettes Relieve Stress?
Does Time Preference Affect Smoking Behavior?
How Does Smoking Affect Cardiovascular Endurance?
How Hypnosis Can Help You Quit Smoking?
How Does Smoking Affect Brain?
How Nicotine Affects Your Quit Smoking Victory?
How Does Secondhand Smoking Affect Us?
Why Is Smoking Addictive?
How Smoking Bans Are Bad for Business?
Why Smoking Should Not Be Permitted in Restaurants?
Why Public Smoking Should Be Banned?
Why Has Cigarette Smoking Become So Prominent Within the American Culture?
What Makes Smoking and Computers Similar?
Does Smoking Affect Schooling?
What Effects Can Cigarette Smoking Have on the Respiratory System?
What Are the Most Prevalent Dangers of Smoking and Drinking?
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The Vaping Teenager: Understanding the Psychographics and Interests of Adolescent Vape Users to Inform Health Communication Campaigns

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Supplemental material, Supplemental_material for The Vaping Teenager: Understanding the Psychographics and Interests of Adolescent Vape Users to Inform Health Communication Campaigns by Carolyn Ann Stalgaitis, Mayo Djakaria and Jeffrey Washington Jordan in Tobacco Use Insights

Background:

Adolescent vaping continues to rise, yet little is known about teen vape users beyond demographics. Effective intervention requires a deeper understanding of the psychographics and interests of adolescent vape users to facilitate targeted communication campaigns.

We analyzed the 2017-2018 weighted cross-sectional online survey data from Virginia high school students (N = 1594) to identify and describe subgroups of adolescents who vaped. Participants reported 30-day vape use, identification with 5 peer crowds (Alternative, Country, Hip Hop, Mainstream, Popular), social prioritization, agreement with personal values statements, social media and smartphone use, and television and event preferences. We compared vaping rates and frequency by peer crowd using a chi-square analysis with follow-up testing to identify higher-risk crowds and confirmed associations using binary and multinomial logistic regression models with peer crowd scores predicting vaping, controlling for demographics. We then used chi-square and t tests to describe the psychographics, media use, and interests of higher-risk peer crowds and current vape users within those crowds.

Any current vaping was the highest among those with Hip Hop peer crowd identification (25.4%), then Popular (21.3%). Stronger peer crowd identification was associated with increased odds of any current vaping for both crowds, vaping on 1 to 19 days for both crowds, and vaping on 20 to 30 days for Hip Hop only. Compared with other peer crowds and non-users, Hip Hop and Popular youth and current vape users reported greater social prioritization and agreement with values related to being social and fashionable. Hip Hop and Popular youth and current vape users reported heavy Instagram and Snapchat use, as well as unique television show and event preferences.

Conclusions:

Hip Hop and Popular adolescents are most likely to vape and should be priority audiences for vaping prevention campaigns. Findings should guide the development of targeted health communication campaigns delivered via carefully designed media strategies.

Introduction

Current (past 30-day) vaping among U.S. adolescents has increased dramatically in recent years. 1 , 2 Rates almost doubled from 2017 (11.0% of 12th graders) to 2018 (20.9%), the largest substance use increase ever observed in the 44-year history of the national Monitoring the Future study. 1 Vapes have been the most commonly used tobacco product among adolescents since 2014, 2 and more than 5 million middle and high school students were current vape users in 2019. 3 These dramatic increases have offset reductions in cigarette smoking, fueling an overall increase in adolescent current tobacco use. 1 , 4

This explosion of vaping is concerning because of the risks associated with adolescent vape use. Adolescents who vape are more likely than non-users to initiate cigarette smoking and escalate smoking among those who have already experimented with cigarettes, 5 - 11 though this association may be due to shared risk factors for vaping and smoking. 12 Researchers are beginning to understand the chemical constituents and health implications of vape juice and aerosols, which include carcinogens and irritants. 8 , 13 - 17 Although long-term health effects are unknown, vaping may be associated with short-term risks including respiratory symptoms, asthma, and bronchitis among adolescents. 8 , 18 , 19 In addition, nicotine exposure affects adolescent brain development, leading to long-term cognitive issues including memory and attention impairment. 20 - 22

Despite the alarming increase, teens who vape remain a minority of the adolescent population. 3 Little is known about which youth are at the greatest risk beyond demographic descriptions, leaving public health interventionists with a limited understanding of who should be prioritized in prevention efforts. Current vaping is more prevalent among male, non-Hispanic White, higher socioeconomic status, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents and young adults. 23 - 27 In addition, young current vape users often have friends and family members who vape or who accept vaping, 28 and use other substances including cigarettes and marijuana. 29 - 31

Audience psychographics move beyond demographics to provide health communicators with critical insights about values, identities, and interests that can inform effective messaging and campaign strategies. 32 - 35 In addition, these insights are critical for the effective planning and execution of modern digital media campaigns that rely on interest-based targeting to deliver digital advertisements to the intended audience. 36 Past studies describing ever and current vape users have typically focused on vaping attitudes and beliefs, 37 - 40 or have used psychographics and motivations to segment adult, but not adolescent, vape users into discrete subgroups. 41 , 42 Only a few studies have examined the psychographics of adolescent or young adult vape users, revealing that novelty-seeking, sensation-seeking, and lower social conservatism are generally associated with ever and current vaping in these populations. 27 , 43 , 44 From this basis, we seek to expand health communicators’ understanding of the psychographics, identities, media use, and interests of adolescent current vape users to inform the development of effective vaping prevention campaigns.

Knowing which adolescents vape, what other substances they use, what they care about, and what influences them is crucial to addressing adolescent vaping. Commercial marketing, including vape marketing, relies on audience segmentation to identify population subgroups with shared desires and needs for whom a tailored brand can be built and marketed via targeted media channels. 45 In health communications, a similar approach is necessary to counter industry marketing by identifying adolescent subgroups at the greatest risk for vaping, developing targeted campaigns that appeal to their shared values, beliefs, and interests, and delivering campaign content via specific media channels and strategies to ensure the target audience is reached. 45 Health campaigns designed around the psychographics of their target audiences are effective, 45 - 47 but this approach requires a clearly defined audience with unique characteristics for whom appealing content can be tailored. Importantly, campaigns must both tailor messaging (by selecting messaging that caters to audience preferences, values, and interests to capture attention and increase persuasion) and target media delivery (by selecting highly specialized media channels and using state-of-the-art ad-targeting technologies) to effectively reach their target audiences in the modern, cluttered media environment. 47 Although much is known about the demographics of adolescent vape users, health educators lack crucial information about their values, influences, and interests that is necessary to define an audience and deliver effective, targeted communications.

To fill this gap, we used online survey data to describe the risk profile, psychographic characteristics, and interests of adolescent current vape users in a single U.S. state. We had 2 primary objectives: to identify potential target audiences for adolescent vaping prevention campaigns and to describe the psychographics, media use, and interests of these higher-risk youth to inform campaign planning. First, we sought to define potential target audiences by applying a peer crowd audience segmentation approach. Peer crowds are macro-level subcultures with shared interests, values, and norms 47 , 48 which are associated with adolescent and young adult health behaviors 49 - 57 and have served as the basis for targeted health interventions. 58 - 64 For example, the Commune campaign targeting Hipster peer crowd young adults resulted in reductions in cigarette smoking associated with stronger anti-tobacco attitudes among those recalling the campaign, 58 , 62 whereas engagement with the Down and Dirty campaign was associated with stronger anti-chewing tobacco attitudes and lower odds of current use among Country peer crowd teens. 61 In this study, we examined vaping behavior for 5 adolescent peer crowds previously established in the literature: Alternative (counterculture, value creativity and uniqueness), Country (patriotic, value hard work and being outdoors), Hip Hop (confident, value overcoming struggles and proving themselves), Mainstream (future-oriented, value organization and stability), and Popular (extroverted, value socializing and excitement). 47 , 49 , 50 , 52 , 54 , 55 , 61 After identifying the highest risk peer crowds, we sought to create a profile of these audiences by examining their broader health risk profiles, psychographics (social prioritization and personal values), digital behaviors (social media and smartphone use), and interests (television shows and events). With this information, we aimed to identify and describe segments of adolescents most in need of targeted vaping interventions to provide clear guidance for health message development and media targeting.

Sample and design

We collected cross-sectional online survey data from high school students ages 13 to 19 living in the U.S. state of Virginia (N = 1594). Participants were recruited from November 2017 to January 2018 using paid Instagram and Facebook advertisements that directed interested individuals to a screener to determine eligibility (13-19 years old, current high school student, and Virginia resident). Eligible youth were invited to participate in the full survey and provided electronic assent (ages 13-17) or consent (ages 18-19). We delivered a parental opt-out form via email for participants ages 13 to 17. Qualified participants who completed the full survey received a US$10 electronic gift card incentive. We implemented numerous fraud prevention and detection measures to maximize data integrity, including concealing eligibility criteria during screening, collecting email addresses to prevent duplicate completions, and reviewing responses for inconsistencies. Chesapeake IRB approved the study (No. Pro00023204).

To address our research objectives, we examined participant demographics; current vaping, tobacco, and other substance use; peer crowd identification; 2 psychographic measures, namely, social prioritization 65 and personal values; social media and smartphone use; and television show and event preferences.

Demographics

Participants provided their birthdate, from which we calculated their age. Participants also indicated their gender (male, female) and race/ethnicity (Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic Asian-Pacific Islander, and non-Hispanic other including multiracial and American Indian or Alaska Native).

Past 30-day vape use

Participants reported the number of days in the past 30 days on which they used e-cigarettes or vapes, with response options of 0, 1 or 2, 3 to 5, 6 to 9, 10 to 19, 20 to 29, and all 30 days. To mirror commonly reported statistics, we examined both any current vaping (1-30 days) and frequency of vaping defined as occasional use (1-19 days) or frequent use (20-30 days). 66

Past 30-day tobacco and substance use

Participants also reported the number of days in the past 30 days on which they used cigarettes; cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars (cigar products); smokeless tobacco; hookah; alcohol; marijuana; and prescription medication without a prescription. Those who reported any past 30-day use were considered current users of that item.

Peer crowd identification

Participants completed Rescue Agency’s I-Base Survey®, a photo-based tool that measured identification with 5 peer crowds: Alternative, Country, Hip Hop, Mainstream, and Popular. The I-Base Survey has identified consistent patterns of peer crowd prevalence and health risks in adolescents across the United States. 49 - 52 , 55 , 57 , 61 , 64 In brief, participants viewed a grid of 40 photos of unknown female adolescents and selected 3 who would best and 3 who would least fit with their main group of friends; they then repeated the process with male photos. Photos were presented in random order to each participant to reduce order effects, and represented a mix of races/ethnicities and peer crowds determined through prior qualitative research. Participants earned positive points for the peer crowds of photos selected as the best fit and negative points for those selected as the least fit, resulting in a score ranging from −12 to 12 for each of the 5 crowds. For analyses, we assigned participants to each crowd with which they had at least some identification, defined as a score of 1 or more on the I-Base Survey for that crowd. Participants could be assigned to more than 1 peer crowd as they could score positively for multiple crowds.

Social prioritization index

Participants completed the social prioritization index (SPI), a validated measure of the degree to which an individual places importance on their social life that is associated with young adult cigarette use. 58 , 59 , 65 The SPI included 13 questions: 8 items wherein participants selected 1 response that best described them from a pair (up for anything/pick and choose what to do, outgoing/low-key, center of attention/lay low, street smart/book smart, partier/studier, wing it/plan it out, the carefree one/the responsible one, in a picture I . . . strike a pose/smile big); 3 true or false items (In groups of people, I am rarely the center of attention; I have considered being an entertainer or actor; I can look anyone in the eye and tell a lie with a straight face); 1 item asking how many nights they went out for fun in the past week (0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 nights); and 1 item asking how late they typically stayed out when they went out for fun (9:59-10:59 pm , 11:00 pm -12:59 am , 1:00-2:59 am , 3:00 am or later). To calculate the SPI score (range: 0-17), participants received 1 point for each socially oriented selection for the 8 descriptive pairs and 3 true/false questions, and received 0 points for selecting 0-1 nights per week or 9:59-10:59 pm , 1 point for 2-3 nights per week or 11:00 pm -12:59 am , 2 points for 4-5 nights per week or 1:00-2:59 am , and 3 points for 6-7 nights per week or 3:00 am or later.

Personal values

Participants viewed 26 personal values statements (e.g., I think it is more important to live in the moment than focus on the future) and rated each on a 5-point Likert-type scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

Past 7-day social media use

Participants reported if they had consumed or created content on 6 social media platforms in the past 7 days: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, and Pinterest.

Lifetime smartphone use

Participants were asked if they had a smartphone, and if so, if they had ever used their smartphone to engage in 9 different activities (e.g., listen to an online radio or a music service such as Pandora or Spotify; watch movies or TV shows through a paid subscription service like Netflix).

Television show preferences

Participants selected all television shows they regularly watched from a list of 24 broadcast and streaming shows popular with youth (e.g., 13 Reasons Why, Ridiculousness ).

Event preferences

Participants selected all events they regularly attended from a list of 25 leisure time events youth might attend (e.g., sports games, high school dances).

Statistical analysis

Respondents were required to complete the survey, so no data were missing. Data were weighted to the gender, race/ethnicity, and urban/rural demographics of Virginia teens for all analyses. As a first step, we ran weighted and unweighted frequencies and means for demographic measures.

To address our first objective of identifying which adolescents were at the greatest risk, we used chi-square tests to compare the rates of current vaping and vaping frequency among those who did and did not identify with each crowd, using follow-up z tests with Bonferroni correction to identify specific significant differences. To confirm that associations persisted while controlling for demographics, we ran separate binary and multinomial logistic regression models for each peer crowd, with a single peer crowd’s score (range: –12 to 12) predicting odds of current vaping, or of occasional or frequent vaping, while controlling for age, gender, and race/ethnicity. We also ran binary logistic regression models for each crowd to predict odds of any current cigarette, cigar product, smokeless tobacco, hookah, alcohol, and marijuana use, and any current prescription medication misuse, to understand the broader risk profile of the peer crowds. We ran separate models for each peer crowd to avoid multicollinearity associated with including all 5 scores in a single model.

After identifying 2 peer crowds at elevated risk for vaping, we addressed our second objective of developing interest-based profiles of these potential target audiences by describing their psychographics (SPI and personal values), social media and smartphone use, and television and event preferences. We first compared frequencies and means for those who did and did not identify with the 2 crowds of interest, using chi-square tests and t tests to identify significant differences. Then, within the 2 peer crowds, we compared frequencies and means between current vape users and non-users, using chi-square tests and t tests to identify significant differences. This approach allowed us to identify the characteristics of the 2 peer crowds of interest to inform campaign content and media targeting, as well as to hone in on psychographics and interests that specifically characterized current vape users within the higher-risk crowds. Due to the relatively small subset of participants who were frequent vape users, we focused on any current use to improve the reliability of results. Tables present items that differed significantly between groups in at least 1 analysis and had endorsement rates above 5.0%.

The weighted mean age of the sample was 16.47 years, and about half identified as female (50.8%) and as non-Hispanic White (55.3%) ( Table 1 ). The most common peer crowd identifications were Popular (63.1%) and Mainstream (62.6%). Race/ethnicity and gender breakdowns differed by crowd ( Supplemental Appendix Table 1 ).

Unweighted and weighted sample descriptive statistics.

Consistent with 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey results, 2 20.6% of Virginia high school students in our sample currently vaped ( Table 2 ). A significantly greater proportion of those with any Hip Hop peer crowd identification currently vaped (25.4%) than those with no Hip Hop identification (18.0%, P < .001). In binary logistic regression models using each peer crowd score (–12 to 12) to predict odds of current vaping while controlling for demographics, a 1-point increase in the Popular score was associated with a 4% increase in odds of current vaping, whereas a 1-point increase in the Hip Hop score was associated with a 10% increase.

Weighted frequencies and adjusted odds ratios for peer crowd risk behaviors.

Abbreviation: AOR, adjusted odds ratio.

Percentages represent the use rate for those with and without identification with a given peer crowd; asterisks indicate a statistically significant difference between “in crowd” and “not in crowd” for each peer crowd. Regression models use the peer crowd score (range: –12 to 12) to predict odds while controlling for age, gender, and race/ethnicity. Boldface indicates statistical significance ( P < .05).

Further differentiating current vape users in the sample, 17.0% were occasional vape users (1-19 days in the past 30 days) and 3.7% were frequent users (20-30 days). Those with any Hip Hop identification reported higher rates of occasional vaping (21.2%) than others (14.6%, P < .05). Although rates of frequent vaping did not differ significantly for any peer crowd, stronger Hip Hop identification was associated with greater odds of both occasional and frequent vaping. Stronger Popular identification was associated with greater odds of occasional vaping only. In addition, stronger Hip Hop identification was associated with greater odds of current cigarette, cigar product, hookah, alcohol, and marijuana use, whereas stronger Popular identification was associated with lower odds of use for many products.

Based on the chi-square tests and logistic regression results, we identified the Hip Hop and Popular peer crowds as being at elevated risk for vaping. We then characterized the psychographics ( Table 3 ), social media and smartphone use ( Table 4 ), and interests ( Table 5 ) of Hip Hop and Popular youth in general, as well as Hip Hop and Popular current vape users in particular.

Weighted frequencies for psychographic measures by peer crowd and current vaping status.

Abbreviation: SPI, social prioritization index.

Boldface indicates statistical significance ( P < .05).

Weighted frequencies for past 7-day social media and lifetime smartphone use by peer crowd and current vaping status.

Boldface indicates statistical significance (P < .05).

Weighted frequencies for television show and event preferences by peer crowd and current vaping status.

Overall, Hip Hop participants were social, trendy individuals interested in hip hop/rap music and sports. Compared with those with no Hip Hop identification, Hip Hop youth had higher SPI scores, in particular describing themselves as partiers, street smart, and carefree ( Table 3 ). Hip Hop youth more often agreed that they make decisions quickly, are fashionable, are social people with lots of friends, and are tougher than most people. In contrast, they less often agreed that they are patriotic, good students, care what others think about them, care about keeping their bodies free from toxins, and follow the rules. A greater proportion of Hip Hop youth used Snapchat in the past week and used their smartphones to look up sports scores or analyses than those with no Hip Hop identification ( Table 4 ). Many TV shows more often endorsed by Hip Hop youth revolved around hip hop/rap musical interests, such as Love & Hip Hop, The Rap Game , and Wild ’N Out ( Table 5 ). Similarly, Hip Hop youth more often indicated that they regularly attend hip hop concerts and dance clubs than others, as well as basketball and football games.

Characteristics of vape users within the Hip Hop peer crowd largely reflected an amplification of the broader crowd’s profile. Hip Hop vape users had higher SPI scores than non-users within the crowd, and they described themselves as partiers, street smart, carefree, and up for anything ( Table 3 ). They more often agreed that they are fashionable, use their clothes to express their identity, and are tough, and less often agreed that they follow the rules, follow tradition, and care about keeping their bodies free from toxins than non-users. A greater proportion of Hip Hop vape users reported using Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter in the past week than non-users ( Table 4 ). Hip Hop vape users also more often reported using their smartphones to look up sports scores and analyses, stream music, and make video calls than non-users. Hip Hop vape users more often reported watching 2 cartoon shows, The Boondocks and Bob’s Burgers , than non-users ( Table 5 ). Similar to the overall crowd, a greater proportion of Hip Hop vape users indicated that they attend dance clubs, hip hop concerts, basketball games, and football games than non-users.

Popular youth shared some characteristics with Hip Hop youth, but also differed in key ways. Although Popular and Hip Hop youth both reported higher SPI scores than others, the specific SPI items they endorsed often differed ( Table 3 ). Though both Hip Hop and Popular youth described themselves as partiers, Popular youth also described themselves as the center of attention, outgoing, and up for anything, which were not significant in Hip Hop analyses. Similar to Hip Hop youth, Popular youth more often agreed that they are fashionable and are social people with lots of friends. However, Popular youth also more often agreed that they care about being good students, keeping their bodies free from toxins, and being patriotic, items with which Hip Hop youth less often agreed. Popular youth also more often agreed that family is important, that they try to follow tradition, and that they are religious than other youth. Popular youth more often reported using Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter than other youth and more often used their smartphones to look up sports scores or analyses and to stream music or video content ( Table 4 ). Compared with others, Popular youth more often reported watching teen dramas, including 13 Reasons Why, Jane the Virgin, Pretty Little Liars , and Riverdale ( Table 5 ). Sports were favored by Popular youth, as they more often reported attending basketball, football, baseball, and soccer games than others. They also more often reported attending church events, community service events, high school dances, and pop and country music concerts.

Popular vape users shared many traits with the broader Popular crowd as well as with Hip Hop vape users. Similar to Hip Hop vape users, Popular vape users reported higher SPI scores than non-users, describing themselves as outgoing, partiers, street smart, carefree, and up for anything ( Table 3 ). Popular vape users also more often agreed that they care about being fashionable, social, and tough than non-users and less often agreed that they care about keeping their bodies free from toxins and following the rules, similar to Hip Hop vape users. Although, overall, Popular youth more often agreed that they value family, tradition, and religion than other youth, Popular vape users less often agreed with these items than non-users. Similar to the broader Popular peer crowd and to Hip Hop vape users, Popular vape users more often reported using Instagram and Snapchat, and using their smartphones to look up sports scores and place video calls ( Table 4 ). Popular vape users, like Hip Hop vape users, more often reported watching The Boondocks and Bob’s Burgers than non-users ( Table 5 ). Similar to the broader Popular crowd, Popular vape users more often reported attending sports games, high school dances, and concerts than non-users, though they less often reported attending church events.

This study identified a subset of adolescents at the greatest risk for vaping, and the psychographic characteristics and interests that should inform the creation of targeted health communications messages and media delivery strategies for these youth. The Hip Hop and Popular peer crowds were at the greatest risk for current vaping, aligning with earlier representative data from Virginia and similar studies of young adults. 52 , 53 , 56 Interestingly, although both crowds were at increased risk for current vaping, their broader risk profiles diverged, indicating a need for differentiated health messaging for the 2 crowds. Hip Hop youth had greater odds of vaping frequently, which may indicate an escalation to nicotine addiction, and were more likely to use other tobacco products and substances. Popular youth, however, were at increased risk for occasional vaping only, with reduced risk for several other substances including cigarettes.

Understanding the psychographics and interests of Hip Hop and Popular youth, and Hip Hop and Popular current vape users in particular, provides insights for health communications campaign development and hints at possible explanations for differential risk by crowd. Hip Hop and Popular youth and current vape users reported higher mean SPI scores than other youth, and endorsed personal values related to being fashionable and sociable. These findings paint a psychographic portrait of Hip Hop and Popular youth and current vape users as individuals who care about their social lives, are trend sensitive, and are strongly influenced by their social environments. This portrait aligns with vape marketing campaigns, which often feature celebrities, associate vaping with socializing and partying, and use sleek, modern designs reminiscent of trendy technology such as iPhones, 37 , 67 - 69 all of which likely appeal to the youth described here. To effectively counter industry marketing and media depictions that may appeal to Hip Hop and Popular adolescents, health educators must create relevant messaging that breaks the connection between vaping and social status or trendiness, and motivates youth to reconsider vaping as a key feature of their social lives. Furthermore, as current vape users in this study cared less about following rules and protecting their bodies from toxins than non-users, campaign messaging must look beyond authoritative tones and typical scare tactic messaging to cultivate a socially influential brand that can persuade higher-risk youth to avoid vaping by speaking directly to their priorities and values.

Hip Hop and Popular adolescents and current vape users also reported extensive smartphone and social media use, in particular the use of Instagram, Snapchat, sports analysis sites, and video/music streaming services. Heavy social media use may contribute to adolescent vaping as user- and industry-generated vaping content abounds across platforms, 70 - 74 and early research suggests that heavier social media use and exposure to vape advertisements on social media are associated with willingness and intentions to vape. 75 Given the known association between exposure to online tobacco marketing and adolescent tobacco initiation and progression, 76 , 77 heavy social media use among Hip Hop and Popular adolescents may further explain why these youth vape. At the same time, these findings can guide health communicators in selecting relevant campaign channels and delivering content via targeted advertisements. Vaping prevention campaigns must meet higher-risk adolescents where they are to deliver messaging to the target audience using the cutting-edge ad-targeting technology employed by commercial advertisers. Although not yet ubiquitous in public health, the targeted placement of paid campaign advertising has been successfully applied to deliver health communications to intended audiences for initiatives including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s The Real Cost general market and Fresh Empire Hip Hop adolescent tobacco education campaigns. 35 , 61 , 78 , 79 In addition, to counter the abundance of pro-vaping content youth encounter online, health communication campaigns must cultivate active, appealing social media presences to establish themselves as relatable and trustworthy social influencers and interject tailored prevention messaging into the pro-vaping social media environments of higher-risk youth. 80 , 81

Finally, Hip Hop and Popular youth and current vape users reported specific television and event preferences. Although vaping is currently rare in television programming, 82 , 83 exposure to vape advertisements on television and to vaping in other forms of media including music videos is common and may promote positive attitudes toward vaping among youth. 84 - 89 Although it is unclear if Hip Hop and Popular adolescents are disproportionately exposed to vape advertisements or onscreen vaping, continued monitoring is warranted to track how vaping is depicted over time and if exposure to vaping in media is associated with risks similar to that of exposure to cigarette smoking in movies. 90 In addition, little is known about vape industry sponsorship or promotion at events, an important topic for future work given the tobacco industry’s historical use of events for product promotion. 91 , 92 Although less is known about how television and event preferences may influence vaping risk, this information is incredibly useful to health educators for campaign tailoring and media targeting. Interests can be used to build media targeting profiles that concentrate message delivery and dosage on those most at risk, increasing chances for successful attention and persuasion. Television preference data can inform media buys, 93 identify potential influencer partnerships, and reveal opportunities to engage with the target audience about relevant televised events. 81 Event preference data can inform the selection of relevant settings for advertisements and identify opportunities for in-person engagement with the target audience. With this wealth of information, health educators can develop targeted health communication interventions that effectively reach and persuade higher-risk adolescents.

Although the Hip Hop and Popular peer crowds shared some psychographics and preferences, differences between the crowds indicate that separate campaigns are necessary. In particular, different messaging approaches are needed to appropriately address the more frequent, established nature of vaping among Hip Hop youth, who may require cessation resources, and the less frequent, possibly social nature of vaping among Popular youth. Experimental studies have demonstrated the promise of peer crowd-targeted smoking prevention messaging, 94 - 96 and evaluation studies of peer-crowd-targeted campaigns reveal success in addressing cigarette and smokeless tobacco use. 58 - 62 , 64 Peer crowd targeting may also be a means of more effectively addressing tobacco use disparities. Previous literature suggests that non-Hispanic White youth are at the greatest risk for vaping, 23 - 25 , 27 but this study indicates that the Hip Hop peer crowd, which overrepresents racial/ethnic minorities ( Supplemental Appendix Table 1 ), 50 - 52 , 54 is at the greatest risk for frequent vaping, identifying a higher-risk group that might otherwise be missed by campaigns using demographic segmentation. This study provides a preliminary insight into who these youth are, what they care about, and the media they consume; future research must test potential campaign messages with youth from the targeted peer crowd to ensure that tailored content resonates and motivates positive behavior change.

Limitations

It is important to note several limitations of this study. Generalizability is unclear as we surveyed a convenience sample recruited via social media from a single state, although peer crowd risk findings did align with previous observations from varied samples and locations. 52 , 53 , 55 , 56 We did not collect vape brand preferences, and did not distinguish between vaping nicotine, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or marijuana products, and flavors only, which should be explored to determine if users of different products have unique characteristics and interests. We also cannot discern causality, such as whether any of these psychographic characteristics or interests predisposed teens to increased interest in vaping, or if targeted industry marketing or other factors may have contributed to disparities.

Conclusions

Tackling adolescent vaping requires understanding who is at the greatest risk and how to reach them with relevant, persuasive messaging. Although current vaping is increasingly common among U.S. adolescents, risk is not evenly distributed, and prevention efforts should rely on psychographic segmentation, audience tailoring, and media targeting to effectively and efficiently reach higher-risk adolescents. 45 Although establishing a deeper understanding of the psychographics and interests of higher-risk adolescents may appear burdensome, in fact it is necessary to ensure that limited public health funds are spent on the populations facing the greatest challenges, 46 particularly in today’s online media environment where platform targeting tools cater toward advertisers who know the interests of their audiences. Our findings provide a detailed portrait of adolescents who are at increased risk for current vaping, information which should directly inform health communication campaign planning. Future campaigns should incorporate our findings to create messages relevant to the psychographics and risk profiles of these youth, which are delivered using carefully selected media strategies reflecting the greatest opportunities to reach the target audience efficiently. Addressing the urgent adolescent vaping crisis requires looking deeper than demographics to understand and leverage knowledge about who adolescent vape users are and what they care about, to create health communications campaigns that appeal to and persuade those at the greatest risk.

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Acknowledgments.

The authors would like to thank Rebeca Mahr, Molly Moran, and Jon Benko for their assistance with data collection; Jensen Saintilien and Gwenyth Crise for their assistance with reviewing the literature; and Sharyn Rundle-Thiele for her feedback on a draft of the manuscript.

Author Contributions: CAS conducted analyses and drafted the manuscript. MD and JWJ contributed to study conception/design and manuscript revisions.

Funding: The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Persuasive Essay on Vaping and E-cigarettes Should Be Banned

Nicotine is a highly addictive substance which is as hard to give up as heroin. 2.06 million teens are using nicotine on a daily basis across America. Nicotine is commonly used in vaping and e-cigarettes, and the dosage is either lower or the same as in cigarettes and tobacco products.Some believe vapes lead to drug addictions, while others say they do nothing wrong and have no effect. Vaping and E-cigarettes should be banned. Vaping is unbenefictial to a person’s health and rather targets their packaging towards young children and gives them a higher risk of developing a nicotine addiction.

The number of kids who vape is increasing, addicting new generations to nicotine and cigarettes, and introducing them to smoking. The percentage of kids who vape has gone up throughout the years, For example, "As of 2020, 19.6% of high school students used e-cigarettes, the most-used tobacco product among the age group, followed by cigars (5%)" (ProCon 1). 19.6% of high school students rely on nicotine. The nicotine in the vapes is the same as the one in cigarettes that can lead to them turning to cigarettes. Many of the students can get their friends addicted to nicotine as well, increasing the number of students who use e-cigarettes. The site also mentions that "One JUULpod contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes, both of which last for about 200 puffs" (ProCon 1). Vaping can be just as bad and addictive as cigarettes. It may take longer to use the whole vape rather than a pack of cigarettes, but it's still the same amount of nicotine consumed. It is not a healthier option if it's not as different as cigarettes. Matthew Myers, who campaigns against tobacco, stated, "Like cigarette companies, e-cigarette makers claim they don’t market to kids. But they’re using the same themes and tactics tobacco companies have long used to market regular cigarettes to kids (Exploring Issues 1). E-cigarettes and vape companies tend to rely on the same marketing used to get kids into cigarettes. They use the same techniques as tobacco companies that try to get kids to buy their products. They use a confident and good looking person to say vaping is cool and desirable. Vaping attracts many new people into smoking and opens many opportunities for health issues.

Nicotine can lead to many problems regarding health. Nicotine is a very addictive substance and can damage a person's body. One way it can affect a person is "Nicotine used by young people may increase the risk of addiction to other drugs and impair prefrontal brain development, which can lead to ADD and disrupt impulse control"(ProCon 1). Nicotine can cause cravings and cause impulsive behavior if a person becomes addicted. Nicotine can lead to more drugs and can cause brain damage to a person. Brain damage can lead to disorders like ADD. Not only does it lead to brain disorders, but also long-term diseases and strokes. The article states, "People who use e-cigarettes have a 71% increased risk of stroke and a 40% higher risk of heart disease, as compared to nonusers" (ProCon 1). People who use e-cigarettes or vapes have a higher chance of having a stroke or heart disease, which could kill them. The chemicals in the products can expose a person to life-long struggles because of a stroke. Heart disease is a long-term disease that can result from vaping and is the leading cause of death in America. A main contributor to these injuries and illnesses is the chemicals inside the vape. An example of what the chemicals can do is "Some ingredients in the liquids used in e-cigarettes change composition when they are heated, leading to inhalation of harmful compounds such as formaldehyde, which is carcinogenic" (ProCon 1). The liquids can change when heated, changing the compounds in the liquid. The liquid compounds could become dangerous and turn into chemicals like formaldehyde, which can lead to irritations all over the body and sometimes even cancer. Some health conditions and problems can cause problems for the rest of a person's life, but some argue it helps people with smoking.

E-cigarettes help people stop smoking. Studies have been done many times on this topic. One study states, "A July 2019 study found that cigarette smokers who picked up vaping were 67% more likely to quit smoking" (ProCon 1). That may be true, but people can still face health issues and still ingest an equal amount of nicotine found in a pack of cigarettes. Vapes can be safer than cigarettes because of the fact that they use vapor, not smoke. The website says, "However, most scientists agree that ESDs are much less harmful to health than tobacco cigarettes" (Exploring Issues). Vapes can be much safer than tobacco with items inside, but they can also expose a person to the same health problems as tobacco. Vaping can even heat up and change the liquid compound inside of it, creating formaldehyde, which can lead to cancer and irritations. The heat in the vapes can burn holes in the lungs as well, just like cigarettes.

Vaping can cause many problems regarding health and contributes to attracting more children to turn to vaping. Vapes can be marketed the same as cigarettes and can be just as harmful. Vaping can lead to a gateway of health issues like strokes, heart attacks, ADD, nausea, and more. The liquid in the vapes can create dangerous compounds when heated up and can burn holes into the lungs. It may be different than smoking and a healthier option, but the risks are still present.

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190 Smoking Essay Topics

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Should Smoking Be Illegal?
Cigarette Smokers and Their Types
Smoking in Public Places: Should It Be Banned?
The Dangers of Smoking and Its Prevent
Analysis of the Movie “Thank You for Smoking”: The Propaganda
Discussion: Smoking and Health Risks
Are Anti-smoking Adverts Effective?
Smoking in Public Places: Negative Effects Public smoking should be banned in all public places to ensure workers perform their duties without interference. Also tobacco contains harmful substances that intoxicate people.
“Thank You for Smoking” by Jason Reitman The movie, ‘Thank You for Not Smoking’ has a theme that mainly revolves within the tobacco industry. The movie Thank You for Smoking is a campaigner for use of tobacco products.
Smoking Dependence Treatment & Statistics The study used a two-group design that involved two samples of 40 participants who had ended treatment for smoking dependence. There were two treatment options.
Smoking and Health Promotion in the UK In the following paper, issues of health promotion and smoking, in particular, will be evaluated and analysed on the basis of facts from the United Kingdom.
Adverse Effects of Smoking Marijuana on Probation The smoking marijuana is associated with many possible negative health effects. Despite the initial euphoric state, panic attacks, confusion and anxiety are common.
Smoking Ban in Bars and Restaurants The smoking ban in bars and restaurants law took effect in New York in the year 2003. The law stated that there was no one who was supposed to smoke in a café, restaurant or bar.
Anti-Smoking Poster Visual Analysis in Advertising This discussion presents a visual analysis of an anti-smoking poster that explores usage of words, images, colors, settings, and layout to deliver message to the audience.
Impact of Smoking on a Pregnant Woman Smoking has various effects not only on a pregnant woman: it affects both the unborn child and the woman who is expectant.
Smoking Bans in the Nationwide Indoor This paper highlights opinions on indoor smoking bans by the US government and the results show that smoking bans are generally approved by the public.
Why Should Smoking Be Banned in Public? Cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are associated with prolonged exposure to tobacco smoke.
Indoor Smoking Ban: Study Methodology The issue of whether or not the United States should pass a nationwide ban on indoor smoking is one that has managed to elicit a lot of debate.
Design and Health Promotion Program for Someone to Quit Smoking The paper will present a smoking intervention program that combines medical and psychological solutions that address all the aspects of smoking addiction.
Problems of Smoking in Public Places The below discussion will discuss the arguments for and against banning smoking in public places which will lead to a comparison of the same.
Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places Smoking should be banned in public places because it has negative effects on those people who do not smoke and violates their rights to clean air and health safety.
Should Cigarette Smoking Be Banned? The paper highlights the harmful effects of smoking. The chemicals trigger various adverse health conditions, many of which can cause death.
Tobacco Smoking Cessation The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai’s interventions alleviates the economic and social burdens caused by tobacco use.
Smoking Cessation and Depression It was estimated that nicotine affects the human’s reward system. As a result, smoking cessation might lead to depression and other mental disorder.
Discussion: Treating Smoking Dependence A controlled study was performed to determine the efficacy of Mindfulness Therapy (MT) in treating smoking dependence among 40 adults.
Should Cigarette Smoking Be Banned? The question of whether cigarette smoking should be banned as it causes diseases, increases the healthcare system’s burden, and pollutes the environment, is pondered in this paper.
Motivation Methods to Quit Smoking According to the recommendations for treating tobacco use, the interventions for such patients should be aimed at motivating them to finally quit smoking.
Smoking: Addiction Treatment Methods The therapists advise those who are daily tobacco users to quit, despite their willingness. However, the intervention for smokers without any desire to stop is a complicated one.
Quit Smoking: Therapies and Medications This paper describes how nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), non-nicotine medications, and behavior therapy are valid ways to quit smoking.
Anti-Smoking Persuasion: Rhetorical Situation Analysis This paper narrates a rhetorical moment in which I had an argument with my brother on his smoking behavior while he was in high school.
Weyco Inc.’s Smoking Ban in Deontological Ethics This paper investigates the case study of the smoking ban used in Weyco Inc. from a deontological (non-consequentialist) perspective.
E-Cigarettes Smoking: Threat or Solution? Nowadays, the new challenge looms on the horizon – the introduction of electronic cigarettes. There are many views on vaping, smoking e-cigarettes, both positive and negative.
Relationship between Asthma and Smoking The relationship between asthma and smoking explains why many adults who develop asthma past their 50th birthdays often have a history of smoking tobacco.
Passive Smoking and Pancreatic Cancer in Women The association between ETS and pancreatic cancer is weak. The pancreatic cancer risk associated is confounded by environmental tobacco smoke exposures.
A Health Problem – Smoking Analysis Smoking has been a health problem worldwide due to its adverse health effects. The paper gives several alternatives that have been advanced to assist addicts in quitting smoking.
Smoking in Movies: Tobacco Industry Tactics The American tobacco industry has a long history of collaboration with the film industry to promote smoking and advertise some tobacco brands.
Nursing Interventions for Smoking Cessation The article “Nursing Interventions for Smoking Cessation” aims to investigate the effectiveness of nursing-initiated interventions. The authors are the nursing professionals.
Harmful Effects of Smoking: Why to Quit Smoking? This paper highlights the harmful effects of smoking on the human body and associated health risks and emphasizes the need for smoking cessation.
Smoking-Related Harmful Health Effects Smoking tobacco continues to be a leading cause of early disability and mortality worldwide. The use of combusted tobacco has health risks that are now beyond dispute.
Aspects of the Harm of Smoking The paper states that it is a mistake to believe that if you smoke one cigarette for two or three, then the harm to the body will be less.
Adult Smoking in Hatch, New Mexico Adult smoking is one of the health risk factors with the highest prevalence in Dona Ana County in New Mexico where Hatch is located.
Impact of UK Smoking Ban on Pub Closures Smoking bans in bars came with serious risks and a dire prognosis; pub owners expected harm in the short term, yet such a ban benefited British society.
Smoking: An Idea for a Statistical Experiment The hypothesis is that people who smoke cigarettes daily tend to earn more than others: this is a personal observation that requires careful experimental testing.
Why Should Smoking Be Illegal? Cigarettes have been the most harmful invention in human history. Because of this, it is a huge financial and political drain.
Health Effects of Smoking. Rhinosinusitis Symptoms Smoking has negative impacts on the health of individuals. Many people have developed various complications, whereby some have lost their lives.
Drinking and Smoking During Pregnancy Smoking and drinking alcohol is a wrong decision for a pregnant woman who wants to heighten the chances of light delivery and good health for her child.
Smoking Patients. Practice Recommendations There are several ways to handle smoking patients. Brief interventions to screen all clients for all forms of tobacco use and initiate treatment as appropriate are suggested.
The Ban on Smoking: Main Reasons One reason why smoking should be banned is because it has got several health effects. It harms almost every organ of the body.
Correlating Smoking to Comorbidities The smoking problem engulfing the world about comorbidities is worrying a lot. Millions of old African Americans suffer through this scourge, whose prevalence increases daily.
Smoking Cessation and Increase in Quality of Life This paper seeks to establish whether smoking cessation improves the quality of life in African American women beyond 50 years who are smokers with COPD.
Lung and Bronchus Cancer in Smoking Americans Among the causes of lung and bronchus cancer, smoking is the first to be distinguished, which is the reason for the vast majority of incidence cases.
The Pharmacists’ Action on Smoking Program The purpose of the research is to analyze and evaluate the results of the Pharmacists’ Action on the Smoking program.
The US Veterans: The Problem of Tobacco Smoking Although the rate of tobacco use among American veterans has been declining, those returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are smoking at an alarming rate.
Health-Care Cost of Smoking: Economic Impacts Smoking simply refers to a practice in which a known substance, usually cannabis or tobacco, is burnt and the smoke it produces is inhaled directly.
Team Collaboration for Smoking Cessation The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (2018) show that smoking harms almost every single organ in the human body, causes various diseases and conditions.
Tobacco Smoking Trend in Australia The following essay investigates the trends of tobacco smoking in Australia and what environmental and health effects it might bear.
Community-Based Interventions to Promote Non-Smoking The research article’s design is experimental. An experimental design to come up with the cause-effect association among a collection of variables of scientific approaches
‘Social Smoking Among Young Adults’ by Song & Ling In the article, Social smoking among young adults: Investigation of Intentions and Attempts to Quit, Song and Ling discuss social smoking among young adults.
The Problem of Smoking in Young Adults This paper will propose cigarette cessation as a health promotion plan to address smoking in young adults.
Smoking and Cognitive Dissonance Theory This paper seeks to study smoking from the perspective of the Cognitive Dissonance Theory (CDT) and dissect the issue of dissonance-reducing beliefs in smoking people.
Motivational Interviewing as a Smoking Cessation Method Motivational Interviewing intervention is one of the primary cessation methods that is used among patients that reluctant to abstain from tobacco use.
Antismoking Ads and Youth Smoking Prevalence The article “Evidence of a dose-response relationship between “truth” antismoking ads and youth smoking prevalence” elaborates on the influence of antismoking advertisements.
Smoking Cessation: Causes and Statistics This article focuses on smoking, examining the causes, statistics, and approved medications used to quit smoking.
Tobacco Smoking Among Adolescents: Signature Assignment The purpose of this paper is to describe the reasons for the prevalence of tobacco use among adolescents of low and middle-income households.
Reducing Cigarette Smoking American Youth The number of smokers among juvenility in America is alarming. Instead of going down, this amount just leveled up.
Health Risks: Smoking and Usage of Substances The purpose of this article is to consider the health risks to which people who smoke and use psychoactive substances are exposed.
Effects of Smoking on Your Health This paper discusses smoking. Smoking causes severe damage to lungs, increased risk of respiratory infections, etc. Disease caused by smoking.
Young Mothers-Smokers: The Transtheoretical Model The transtheoretical model by Prochaska and DiClemente involves five consistent stages that are as follows: pre-contemplation, contemplation, action, maintenance, and relapse.
Ban on Smoking in the Workplace The third state after Delaware and California to issue anti-smoking legislature banning the use of tobacco products in public places with effect from April 2008.
Cigarette Smoking Cessation Methods This essay is about smoking as a bad habit that people should quit and strict laws should be applied against it.
Smoking and Public Policy in the United States In the USA, a number of public transportation agencies have decided to ban smoking in their transportation facilities, like trains and busses.
Anti-Smoking Persuasive Campaigns and Factors Determining Outcomes Tobacco has become one of the major health issues, affecting most of the American population and other world citizens.
The Problem of Smoking Ban The goal of the essay is to provide arguments to defend nonsmokers on the dispute regarding smoking-related restrictions.
Smoking Bans in Workplaces and Public Spaces The paper researches evidence that secondhand smoke causes the same problems as direct smoking, including lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and lung ailments.
Smoking Cessation Plan with mHealth Application The goal of this paper is to develop a smoking cessation plan for a patient at risk of depression, using a mHealth application based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Secondhand Smoking: Environmental Health Promotion Smoking remains a significant environmental problem that affects many people. Secondhand smoking can also be a dangerous issue because of the pernicious impact of tobacco.
The Changing Public Image of Smoking in the United States Scholars have discovered that 15 of every 100 country residents use tobacco products on a regular basis, which poses the problem as a nationwide issue.
Smoking Management and Patient Teaching Plan Most smokers need outside prompts to jumpstart their quitting process. This can involve reminding the participant the benefits of quitting.
Smoking Cessation and Patient Teaching Plan The key purpose of this patient teaching plan is to collaborate with him regarding the improvement of his lifestyle, smoking cessation, awareness related to smoking damages.
Acupuncture for Smoking Cessation: Research Process People want to know if acupuncture may be regarded as an effective method for smokers to quit this harmful habit considering that numerous past attempts were taken in vain.
Introduction of New Legislation Regarding Smoking in Miami-Dade County Florida Health Department identifies three major risk factors of heart disease: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and smoking.
Smoking in Cities: Prohibition Bill The proposed bill presupposes the complete prohibition of smoking in cities except for the places that are specially created for it and equipped with corresponding devices.
Lowering Drinking and Smoking Age in the U.S. Some scholars indicate that lowering the minimum legal drinking age from 21 to 17 years will help to limit the number of negative consequences faced by young adults.
Weight Watchers: the Analysis of Smoking The lack of alternatives to the rewards of smoking as a method of controlling weight has created an inelastic demand for the product, which is unlikely to change with the decision to impose high taxes.
The Relationship Between Asthma and Smoking This study explores the relationship between asthma and smoking among adult African Immigrants in California that are a relatively understudied group.
Tobacco Smoking Problem in Miami-Dade County The paper presents the analysis of the tobacco smoking problem in Miami Dade County and analyses the opportunities of the community for resolving this complicated issue.
Smoking Cessation and Stages of the Change The paper studies a case of a client addressed for help to solve his smoking cessation. It identifies the questions to ask the client during each stage of change.
Health Problem in Delaware and Smokers’ Families The paper reviews the NHIS data collection system, explores health problems in Delaware, and studies an article that assumes that married smokers are less likely to quit smoke.
Primary and Seconary Smokers’ Health Implications Primary smokers are people who smoke directly while secondary smokers are people who inhale smoke released by other smokers.
Teratogenic Effects of Alcohol and Smoking The teratogen is an umbrella term for substances that can have adverse effects on an embryo. In the situation, a girl continues drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes despite being pregnant.
The Link Between Asthma and Immigrant Smoking The purpose of this study is to determine the association between asthma and smoking status among adult African immigrants in California.
Smoking and Heart Disease Rates in African-Americans High prevalence of smoking in African-Americans leads to the increased incidence of heart disease in this population.
Asthma Incidence and Smoking among Immigrants in California This paper analyzes relationship between smoking behaviors and asthma cases in states or regions that have multiple immigrant population groups, such as New York and California.
Tobacco and E-Cigarettes Smoking: Negative Effects Cigarette smoking is well known to have diverse health effects on humans, include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, bronchitis and heart attack.
Smoking Cessation and Depression Problem The aim of the study is to scrutinize the issues inherent in the process of smoking cessation and align them with the occurrence of depression in an extensive sample of individuals.
Children With Asthma: Risks Created by Smoking Parents The available literature indicates that secondhand smoking from parents hurts children with asthma and other respiratory diseases, causing complications.
“Impact of Institutional Smoking Bans on Reducing Harms and Secondhand Smoke Exposure”: Article Review This paper focuses on a systematic review of the article Impact of institutional smoking bans on reducing harms and secondhand smoke exposure.
Asthma and Smoking Among Adult African Immigrants This study explores the association between asthma and smoking status among adult African immigrants in California using a quantitative correlational approach.
Asthma Incidence and Smoking among African Immigrants in California This paper explores the association between asthma incidence and smoking among African immigrants in California.
Smoking Hazards and Cessation Benefits in the US In the article on smoking-related hazards, the reference to the measurements made by national healthcare representatives to define the benefits of smoking-cessation.
The Central Connecticut State University Smoking Banning CCSU should bans smoking from campus because according to cancer.gov, it is proven that secondhand smoke contains at least 250 dangerous chemical and could cause a lot of diseases.
Banning Public Smoking The essentiality of the essentiality of this paper is to explore the effects of public smoking and provide arguments that will lead to the prohibition of public smoking.
Cigarette Smoking Role in Public Health Cigarette smoking produces little marginal social benefits. This paper provides an insight into the debate surrounding cigarette smoking and public health.
Is Smoking Cigarettes Just for Fun or a Death Sentence? Smoking cigarettes is one of the most popular bad habits in the world. Those who are addicted to it keep saying that there is nothing wrong about smoking.
Effects of Public Smoking and Arguments for the Prohibition of Public Smoking The essentiality of the essentiality of this paper is to explore the effects of public smoking and provide arguments that will lead to the prohibition of public smoking.
Current and Long-Term Effects of Smoking
Nationwide Indoor Smoking Ban
Does Smoking Affect Body Weight and Obesity in China
Psychological and Social Influences on Smoking Behaviour
Nicotine Dependence and Smoking Cessation
Women Smoking During Pregnancy Effects on the Children They Carry
How Will More Obesity and Less Smoking Affect Life Expectancy
Human Body and the Impact of Smoking
Nursing Management Plan For Smoking Cessation of a Patient
Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Smoking
How Nurses Can Prevent the Onset of Smoking
Each Year More Americans Die Due to Complications of Smoking
Link Between Smoking and the Occurrence of Cardiovascular
Working Time and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence From Australia and the United Kingdom
Smoke Signals: The Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking Behavior
Lifetime Smoking and Asthma: A Mendelian Randomization Study
How Smoking Affects Your Life and People Around You
Motivation and the Brain: Quitting Smoking
Pregnant Women and the Cessation of Smoking
Cigarette Smoking and Its Health Risks
What Effects Can Cigarette Smoking Have On the Respiratory System
Analyzing Two Opposing Perspectives on Smoking
Youth Smoking Uptake Progress: Price and Public Policy Effects
New York Smoking Ban and Its Constitutionality
Diseases Associated With Cigarette Smoking
How Smoking Affects Adults Health & Well-Being
Anti Smoking Campaign for Smoking
Should the Government Ban Smoking
Links Between Smoking and Panic Attacks
How Smoking Affect Relationships in Work or Home
Quit Smoking and Intervention for Adolescent Smokers
Intervention for Smoking Cessation of Smoking
Gender Dynamics and Smoking Prevalence in Japan
Midwives, Pregnant Women, and Quitting Smoking
How Nicotine Affects Your Quit Smoking Victory
How Smoking Can Negatively Affect Your Life
Lung Cancer Women Smoking Effects
Public Places and the Hazards of Smoking
Cigarette Smoking: The Negative Effects on the Human Body
How Smoking Tobacco Affect Your Life and Surrounding
Lung Tissue and Cigarette Smoking Effects
Persuasive Against Smoking for Teens
How Smoking Has Changed Through the Years
Anti Smoking Advertisement Just Makes a Smoker
How Smoking Affects the Teenage Brain
Cigarette Smoking and Its Negative Effects on Children and Adults
How Smoking Bans Are Bad for Business
How Smoking Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer
Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer
How Smoking Cigarettes Destroys Your Health
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Early Child Outcomes
Does Falling Smoking Lead To Rising Obesity
Hypnosis Quit Smoking Techniques
Obesity, Cigarette Prices, Youth Access Laws, and Adolescent Smoking Initiation
How Smoking Affects the Health Care Costs
Research Project About Likelihood of Smoking for Children of Smokers
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices on Smoking Habits Among School Children
Drug Smoking and Drug Trafficking in the World
Cigarette Smoking Slowly Kills the Country
Anti-smoking Advertisements: Why They Don’t Work
What Effects Can Cigarette Smoking Have on the Respiratory System?
Does Smoking Cigarettes Relieve Stress?
What Are the Reasons for the Teenagers in Smoking?
Does Smoking Have Benefits?
What Kills More Cigarettes Smoking or Obesity?
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When Quitting Smoking Leads to Nicotine Gum Addiction?
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Why Quitting Smoking during Pregnancy?
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Essay on Why Vaping Is Bad

Students are often asked to write an essay on Why Vaping Is Bad in their schools and colleges. And if you’re also looking for the same, we have created 100-word, 250-word, and 500-word essays on the topic.

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100 Words Essay on Why Vaping Is Bad

Health risks.

Vaping can cause serious health problems, including lung damage, heart disease, and cancer. The chemicals in e-cigarettes can damage the cells in your lungs, leading to inflammation and scarring. This can make it harder to breathe and increase your risk of infections.

Nicotine Addiction

E-cigarettes contain nicotine, which is addictive. Nicotine can harm your brain and body, leading to problems such as anxiety, depression, and addiction. It can also increase your risk of heart disease and cancer.

Secondhand Vapor

Vaping can release harmful chemicals into the air, which can be inhaled by people nearby. This is called secondhand vapor, and it can cause the same health problems as vaping.

Vaping is a dangerous habit that can have serious health consequences. If you are thinking about starting to vape, or if you are currently vaping, please reconsider. There are many other ways to enjoy yourself without putting your health at risk.

250 Words Essay on Why Vaping Is Bad

Risky experiment.

Vaping is an action where you breathe in and throw out aerosols, typically presented as a mist or flavored vapor, from electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes are trendy among today’s youth, but they are not safe.

Liquid Trouble

E-cigarettes use a liquid that may contain nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals. Nicotine is a drug that can harm brain growth in young people and can also cause addiction. The other chemicals in e-cigarettes could be bad for your lungs.

Lung Problems

Vaping can cause lung problems, such as scarring and inflammation. It can make you more likely to get infections. Some people have even died from vaping-related lung illnesses.

Not an Addiction-Curer

Vaping is often promoted as a way to quit smoking, but it isn’t a good idea. Vaping is not a proven way to quit smoking, and it can actually make it harder to quit.

Social Embarrassment

Vaping can also cause social problems. Some people find it annoying when others vape around them. It can also lead to arguments and conflicts.

Bad for Society

Vaping can be bad for the community as a whole. It can lead to more pollution and can make it harder for people to breathe.

Be Smart, Say No

Vaping is not safe for anyone, especially young people. If you are tempted to try e-cigarettes, remember that they can be very dangerous. Talk to your parents, teachers, or other trusted adults about the dangers of vaping.

500 Words Essay on Why Vaping Is Bad

Health risks of vaping.

Vaping is inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device. It is often promoted as a safer alternative to smoking, but there is no doubt that vaping has its own set of health risks. Some of the dangers associated with vaping include potential lung damage due to chemicals and metals entering the lungs, nicotine addiction, and the risk of burns or explosions due to faulty devices. The aerosol produced by e-cigarettes contains various chemicals, including formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein, which can cause respiratory irritation and increase the risk of developing serious illnesses like cancer.

Addictive Nature of Nicotine

The majority of e-cigarettes contain nicotine, a highly addictive substance found in traditional cigarettes. Nicotine can adversely affect brain development, especially in young individuals whose brains are still developing. It has been linked to problems with memory, attention, and mood. Additionally, nicotine can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer. E-cigarettes often deliver nicotine more efficiently than traditional cigarettes, leading to a quicker and stronger addiction.

Aerosol and Its Effects

The aerosol produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, as many people believe. Studies have shown that it contains various chemicals, including heavy metals, flavoring agents, volatile organic compounds, and other potentially harmful substances. Inhaling this aerosol can cause inflammation and damage to the lungs. Some research suggests that vaping can increase the risk of respiratory infections and other lung diseases.

In conclusion, there is ample evidence to suggest that vaping is not a safe alternative to smoking and is potentially harmful to our health. The aerosol produced by e-cigarettes contains harmful chemicals that can damage the lungs and pose a risk of addiction to nicotine. Until more research is conducted and the long-term effects of vaping are fully understood, it is best to avoid this practice and encourage others to do the same.

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