Young Sophia girl, Kavitha Cardoza has created a rage on the internet with her recent video. The correspondent for Education Week, reporting on educational issues, posted a video on how Juuling and other forms of vaping have become extremely popular among youngsters in the US. The video has already garnered over 2.4 million views and talks about what is making it popular among youngsters and how it is being used.
She says (in the video), “A lot of high school kids would never think of smoking. They don’t think of vaping as smoking a cigarette or as smoking at all. It is true that Juul does not have a lot of toxic chemicals that say a cigarette has but, a tiny pot of Juul contains an entire pack of cigarettes. They are really easy to hide because they can easily be confused for a thumb drive. Kids take advantage of this. Watch out for kids who cover their face with their hands, sometimes have sleeves next to their nose, and put their head down often.”
JUUL is a closed loop vape system that consists of a battery and a pre-filled pot. The pot is filled with E-liquid and contains high nicotine volume. It is popular and preferred for the wide range of flavours they are available in. Celebrity influence and style quotient makes it even more desirable among youngsters, with affordability being the only factor holding them back.
In other news, Juul will stop selling most e-cigarettes and end social media promotions, bowing to F.D.A pressure to curb teenage vaping.
Believed to be less harmful and an effective way for smoking addicts to control the habit, vapers in the city are fuming over government advisory banning e-cigarettes in namma ooru.
Mihir Rebello, switched to vape over a year ago. He says, “Earlier I used to smoke around 30 cigarettes a day, for fifteen years. And at the time, I used to get a really nasty taste in my mouth due to excessive smoking and that’s how I decided to make the change. It has definitely helped. I’m not saying it’s healthy but it’s healthier; No carbon di oxide, carbon monoxide, no tar! The government is trying to ban it and I believe it is their way to secure the significant number of cigarette users in the country. It is in their best interest that people continue smoking, it accounts to trillions of dollars.”
Taking a look at the other side of the fence, we find out what makes cigarette smokers continue the habit and what they think about vaping.
Rahul Raj, designer for a private firm says, “I do know many people who shift to vaping when compared to smoking a cigarette, for health reasons but I don’t know how effective it is. Most of them use it because they feel it is exotic. But the truth is that cigarettes are much more convenient. Its ergonomic, portable and low maintenance. There is a certain style statement attached to it.”
Agreeing with the popular belief and studies which opine that vape is healthier than cigarettes, Dr. Aparajeet Kar, a chest specialist from Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital, says, “There has been a lot of research done about it and all of them have shown that electronic cigarettes are 95 percent safer than smoking conventional cigarettes. In vaping, you are just using a vaporizer and pouring some liquid which contains vegetable glycerine, flavourings and nicotine which is optional. When a person switches from using cigarettes to vaping, they use six-three mg nicotine and eventually they temper down to zero nicotine. Cigarettes have tar, a cancer causing element. So, vaping is definitely healthier! Rather than imposing a ban on vape, I believe it is important to regulate it.”
