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  • Home
  • About CHANT
  • Tips for Parents
  • Drugs and the Brain
  • Vaping
  • Marijuana and Youth
  • Opioids and Youth
  • Youth Empowerment
  • Tobacco Cessation
  • CHANT Activities & Events
  • Contact Us

VAPING & E-CIGARETTES

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​What is an E-Cigarette? Electronic cigarettes typically use a rechargeable battery-operated heating element to vaporize the nicotine in a replaceable cartridge. Nicotine, the addictive element of tobacco, is usually dissolved in propylene glycol, a clear and colorless liquid that is commonly found in inhalers, cough medicines, and other products. 

These products are also known as Vapes, Vape Pens, JUULs, Pod Mods, Tanks, e-hookah,  e-cigars, etc.

Harmless Water Vapor? Think Again. Studies of e-cigarette aerosol, inaccurately called vapor by the industry (to make it sound "safe") have found the following chemicals:
  • Carcinogens: tobacco specific nitrosamines, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, lead, nickel and chromium
  • Heavy Metals
  • Other hazardous substances: acrolein, tin, toluene and aluminum

A TEASPOON OF E-JUICE, IF INGESTED, COULD KILL A CHILD OR ANIMAL
A TABLESPOON OF E-JUICE COULD KILL AN ADULT

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Though the quantities of these harmful compounds is often less in e-cigarette aerosol than in traditional cigarette smoke, sodium, iron, aluminum and nickel have been found in higher concentrations in e-cigarette aerosol than in cigarette smoke.

​Lack of Regulation. There are currently NO Food and Drug Administration(FDA) restrictions on the ingredients added to            e-cigarette liquid or requirements on the quality of manufacturing, or factual labeling of ingredients in e-cigarettes until 2021.

Health Effects.  

At this time, evidence is not sufficient to know the range or severity of adverse health effects associated with the use of                e-cigarettes or secondhand smoke exposure to aerosol from these products. However, there have been short-term studies conducted that show that vaping may cause serious health effects: 
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  • E-cigarettes contain nicotine, a highly addictive substance that effects the developing brain
  •  Youth use of nicotine in any form is unsafe - disrupts the developing brain
  •  Unsafe for pregnant women and development of fetus
  • E-cigarette smoke may contribute to lung and bladder cancer, as well as heart disease
  • Diacetyl a chemical used in many flavorants is shown to cause “popcorn lung” a chronic lung disease similar to COPD
  • E-cigarettes are also know to explode ​ ​

​​Recently, people who are using e-cigarettes have come down with a mysterious lung disease across the country. At least 33 people have died and 1479 have fallen ill from             
​a vaping-related lung disease
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