E-cigarettes Still As Addictive As Real Ones

E-cigarettes are now widely used by many people around the world. Since the e-cigarette was introduced to the public, this has gained the interest of people who wants to quit smoking the real thing. When the advantages were fully known by e-cigarette users, it seemed to mark the downfall of real cigarette industry.

Just in U.S., there are 7 out of 10 or 18 million youth in middle and high school that were exposed to electronic cigarettes ads in 2014 according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers are continually increasing in 2015 as shown in the new survey coming from New Hampshire Youth Risk Behavior.

As reported by Albany Daily Star, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services have surveyed 67 N.H. high schools where they had a total of 14,837 respondents. Twelve high schools out of 67 were in Seacoast Sunday Readership area and Stafford County schools. In result of the survey done, one-fourth of the total respondents has used vape or e-cigarettes at least once in the last 30 days before the survey began. In percentage, that shows 28 for Seacoast and 30 for Stafford.

The coalition coordinator at Bridging the Gaps, a drug-and alcohol-abuse prevention program in Rochester, Molly Martuscello, said that anti-smoking campaigns have helped in decreasing the numbers of cigarette users but according to the same report, there is a new e-cigarette which combines the vape technology with the real tobacco which is now safer than the conventional e-cigarettes that were first introduced in the market. This might be the answer to a much safer smoking habit to youth.

The e-cigarette works by heating the flavored liquid creating a smoke to be inhaled but with the new vape technology, they found a way to incorporate the flavor of real tobacco with the smoke by letting it pass through a bed of blended tobacco within the smoking device. The hybrid smoking device is called glo iFuse.

The flavor of glo iFuse is much closer to the real tobacco cigarette than those flavored liquids. The Public Health England have assured the public that the hybrid cigarettes do not include any toxic chemicals which make it 95 percent safer than the real tobacco cigarettes.

Dana Mitchell, the coordinator of Dover Youth to Youth said, "Nicotine is nicotine." She added, "It's one of the most addictive drugs out there. It acts fast and holds on. Kids think it's safe, and the research is so new that we don't know what the long-term consequences are." What she's trying to say in her statement is that e-cigarettes are still as addictive as the real ones and nothing is much safer than avoiding it.