2013年4月3日星期三

Electronic Cigarettes Also Have Some Bad impact

Electronic cigarettes, also known as vaporizer cigarettes and e-cigarettes, are devices that people use to replace tobacco. Electronic cigarettes release water vapor that may or may not include nicotine to help smokers quit smoking.
  Electronic cigar are powered by a small battery. Some people say they are an effective and healthier alternative to tobacco smoking, because the user does not inhale harmful tobacco smoke, which contains over 4, 000 toxic chemicals.
 Regular e-cigarette users say that the device gives them a similar sensation to tobacco-cigarette smoking. Yet as a matter of fact, as there is no combustion involved, there is no smoke.
 Electronic cigarettes are long tube-like devices which look like tobacco cigarettes or ballpoint pens. Most of electronic cigarettes have replaceable cartridges but some are throwaway ones.
 The user places the device between his lips and then sucks the device. This action activates a heating element that immediately vaporizes a liquid solution. Learning how to use an e-cigarette, especially for a regular tobacco-smoker, is quite simple because the action is virtually identical to what is done when you smoke a tobacco cigarette.
  Electronic cigarette are seen by many people as a healthy alternative to tobacco smoking. However, Scientists from the University of Athens, Greece find electronic cigarettes also cause damage to the lungs. Electronic cigarettes, also called e-cigarettes have also been marketed as effective smoking cessation devices.
 Some professors have set out to determine what the short-term effects of smoking with e-cigarettes might be on different individuals, including those with no known health problems, as well as existing smokers with and without lung conditions.
 They carried out experiments on 32 volunteers. Of those people, 8 were lifetime non-smokers and 24 were current regular smokers. Some of them had healthy lungs, while others lived with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. They were asked to use an electronic cigarette for 10 minutes, inhaling the vapors into their lungs. Later they found that using an e-cigarette caused an instant increase in airway resistance that lasted for 10 minutes in the majority of the participants. Even among lifetimes non-smokers, using an Electronic cigarette for ten minutes raised their airway resistance to 206% from 182%. And among existing regular smokers, the spirometry tests revealed a significant rise in airway resistance to 220%. COPD and Asthma patients experienced no significant increase in airway resistance from using one e-cigarette for ten minutes.

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