{"id":2853,"date":"2014-03-04T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2015-12-10T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:44:46","slug":"an-e-cigarette-is-still-a-cigarette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/an-e-cigarette-is-still-a-cigarette\/","title":{"rendered":"An E-Cigarette Is Still A Cigarette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 2, Miami-Dade County commissioners unanimously signed into law a decision to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes in indoor workplaces. The ban includes buildings overseen by the Public Health Trust, such as Jackson Memorial Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In doing this, Miami has joined a growing number of cities that are prohibiting e-cigs in certain areas as they did to tobacco cigarettes years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the rise of e-cigs, smoking has become trendy again. It is cool to \u201ce-smoke\u201d sophisticated fumes live on TV or in people\u2019s faces. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E-cigarette commercials are flourishing. Until recently, televised tobacco ads predominantly urged people to quit. However, with the new \u201ctobacco free\u201d cigarettes, people have quickly forgotten about the dangers of smoking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The popularity that tobacco cigarettes have lost in the past ten years is being recovered by e-cigs. Smokers feel free to puff everywhere, particularly where smoking is not allowed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to commercials, e-cigs contain nothing more than harmless water vapor and fruit flavors with a low percentage of nicotine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone once puffed e-cig smoke in my face, and I could clearly perceive the same smell of tobacco found in regular cigarettes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I searched on the Internet, I found that e-cigs generally vaporize a liquid solution. Some solutions contain a mixture of nicotine and flavorings, while others release a flavored vapor without nicotine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution in the vaporizer is made of 84.6% to 92% of propylene glycol and glycerol, 0% to 5.4% of nicotine and 8% to 10% of flavorings. Those substances are presented as harmless, but they are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some studies reveal that e-cigarette smoke has the same effect as cigarette smoke; they both quickly affect the airways. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far, ten chemicals have been identified in e-cig vapor that are on the California Prop 65 list of carcinogens and reproductive toxins: Acetaldehyde, Benzene, Cadmium, Formaldehyde, Isoprene, Lead, Nickel, Nicotine, N-Nitrosonornicotine and Toluene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my research, I also found that many big tobacco companies now own their own e-cig brands, pretending that their e-cigs are safer than regular cigarettes. One of the most popular brands is marketed as a careful blend of tobacco flavors \u201cfor those who enjoy the taste and feel of a rich, full-flavored tobacco cigarette.\u201d So, tobacco or not tobacco?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, many parents fear that the e-cig may be a Trojan horse to their kids. Considering the popularity of e-cigarette, they worry that smoking it will addict children to nicotine and thus increase the likelihood that they will smoke real cigarettes in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of the letter \u201ce\u201d before cigarette, many people think that smoking electronically is okay. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of right now, there is no proof that states e-cig vapor is unharmful. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami have started the movement of banning e-cigs from public places, restaurants, bars and private office buildings. Others cities are also considering bans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Telegraph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Democrat councilor Peter Gennaro, who lost his mother and father-in-law to lung cancer, pushed the e-cig ban in New York and fiercely opposes, what he calls, \u201cre-normalizing smoking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, Miami-Dade County commissioners unanimously signed into law a decision to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes in indoor workplaces. The ban includes buildings overseen by the Public Health Trust, such as Jackson Memorial Hospital. 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