Contents:
- Medical Video: Smoking Causes Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema
- What is a vape?
- What is contained in e-cigarettes?
- Types of vape cigarettes
- 1. Type of pen
- 2. Portable type
- 3. Desktop type
- Is the danger of vape the same as tobacco cigarettes?
- How dangerous is vape for our body?
- Alert! electric cigarette prone to explode
- So why can vape explode?
Medical Video: Smoking Causes Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema
The danger of an electric cigarette alias vape is considered lighter than ordinary tobacco cigarettes. Moreover, lately there has been a trend in electric cigarettes in Indonesia. He said, the use of vape was intended to reduce the use of tobacco cigarettes, or even to make smokers quit smoking. Some people say that using vape is safer than tobacco cigarettes.
As a result, many people who switch to e-cigarettes because they believe can avoid it from the risk of heart disease and cancer associated with the use of tobacco cigarettes. However, is it true that the danger of vape is lower than tobacco cigarettes? Check out the full review of the dangers of vape in this article.
What is a vape?
Vape or electric cigarette is one type of electronic nicotine conductor. This type of cigarette is designed to help tobacco cigarette addicts start quitting smoking. By switching from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes, they slowly learn to stop smoking.
These types of cigarettes come in various shapes and sizes, but there are three main components in e-cigarettes, namely batteries, heating elements, and tubes filled with liquids (cartridge) The liquid in this tube contains nicotine, propylene glycol or glycerin, and flavor enhancers, such as the taste of fruits and chocolate. Some e-cigarettes have batteries and cartridge which can be refilled.
Electric cigarettes work by heating the liquid in the tube and then producing steam like smoke which generally contains various chemicals. The user sucks this chemical directly from the funnel.
What is contained in e-cigarettes?
In e-cigarette liquids contain propylene glycol or glycerin, nicotine, and flavor enhancers.
- Propylene glycol or glycerin functions to produce water vapor. Research shows that breathing in propylene glycol can cause respiratory irritation in some individuals.
- Nicotine is found in different concentrations, between 0-100 mg / ml in an electric cigarette.
- Flavor enhancers, such as chocolate, vanilla, fruits, and others, so that electric smokers can enjoy certain sensations in each of their suction.
- Other components, namely tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA). TSNA is a carcinogen compound found in tobacco and tobacco cigarettes. Small amounts of nitrosamines are found in e-cigarette liquids. The higher the nicotine level, the higher the TSNA level. In addition to TSNA, metal compounds such as chromium, nickel and tin are also found.
Types of vape cigarettes
Vape cigarettes basically have many types. You can find these e-cigarettes in various shapes and sizes. Here are the types of e-cigarettes that you should know.
1. Type of pen
As the name suggests, this one cigarette is shaped like a pen and is the smallest vape compared to other types of vape. The workings of this type of vape are basically the same as other types, namely by heating vape liquid to produce steam. There are two types of heating elements that can be selected to heat the vape type pen fluids, namely:
- Atomizer. This is a heating element to heat vape fluids containing nicotine. The atomizer usually has to be replaced if the heat produced has decreased in quality. Because, this makes the vape taste so bad again. Close to the atomizer, there is a tank where the material will be heated.
- Cartomizer. This is a combination ofcartridge and atomizer. In this arrangement, heated components come into direct contact with the heating element.
To heat the heating element, the vaporizer pen requires batteries as energy. This battery can be recharged and usually has a voltage of 3.7 V, but there are also batteries that can be regulated voltage.
This battery can have power up to 1300 mAh. Be careful with vape batteries because they can explode and endanger you. Avoid this device out of reach of children.
2. Portable type
This type of vaporizer is larger than the pen type vaporizer. Even so, a portable vaporizer can still be inserted into your pocket. Not much different from a vaporizer pen, this type of vaporizer also has heating element and battery components.
But in portable vaporizers, vape fluids do not come in direct contact with heating elements, resulting in better taste and less smoke. While portable vaporizer battery life is usually strong it lasts 2-3 hours or even more.
3. Desktop type
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Among the types of vaporizers mentioned above, desktop vaporizers are the biggest. Yes, this one cigarette has a large shape and cannot be carried anywhere. You only use it at home or in one place. In addition, a desktop vaporizer also requires a flat surface to place it, and requires a constant supply of energy to function properly.
Well, because it gets a stable energy supply, this makes the desktop vaporizer produce more heat, sharper taste and more steam than other types of vaporizers.
The sharper the feeling of vape and the more steam produced may make vape users feel satisfied. However, be careful that the more steam is produced, the higher the health risks that can be experienced.
Basically, how much steam can be produced from a vape device depends on battery power, how much heating element or wire is in the atomizer (usually 0.5 Ohm is optimal enough to produce heat), and composition in vape fluid (the higher the levelvegetable glycerin, the more steam can be produced). However, the high heat that can be produced from vape devices can increase the risk of vape to explode.
Remember, vape fluids certainly contain nicotine. In addition, it also contains basic ingredients and flavorings. This basic material consists ofpropylene glycol andvegetable glycerin whose levels vary.
Propylene glycol more fluid and runny, whereasvegetable glycerin more thick and sweeter. However, these two basic ingredients can cause you to experience an allergic reaction.
Is the danger of vape the same as tobacco cigarettes?
The biggest danger of tobacco cigarettes is smoke, and electric cigarettes do not burn tobacco so they do not produce smoke but water vapor. Research shows that the levels of harmful chemicals in e-cigarettes are a small part of the content in tobacco cigarettes. But the content of these dangerous ingredients can vary.
The study found that endothelial cells in the heart arteries showed a clear stress response when exposed to tobacco smoke, but not for electronic cigarettes. This shows the danger of e-cigarettes is less than tobacco cigarettes. However, this still needs further investigation. Experts are still debating whether e-cigarettes are better or worse than tobacco cigarettes.
Electric cigarettes also contain nicotine which is one of the addictive substances that is also found in tobacco cigarettes. When you stop using it, you will feel like you always wear it again, and can cause feelings of irritability, depression, anxiety, and anxiety. This is dangerous for people who suffer from heart disease.
Still, using an electric cigarette does not make your body safe from the health hazards it causes. Using e-cigarettes or tobacco cigarettes, both of which cause adverse effects on your health, both in the short and long term.
Basically, the only way to maintain your health is to stop smoking, any type of cigarette. One-time smoking a day can even endanger your health. Maybe now e-cigarette users have not experienced health problems, but there may be long-term effects. The health effects of new cigarettes appear within the next few years.
How dangerous is vape for our body?
On the other hand, several studies show that e-cigarettes are far from harmless. Based on data obtained by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), several studies show that:
- Nicotine in e-cigarettes is absorbed by the body of its users and those around it.
- Nicotine is very dangerous for users of e-cigarettes who are still young because it has a negative impact on brain development.
- Nicotine is very dangerous to the health of pregnant women and the fetus in the womb. Using electric cigarettes or even just around people who use e-cigarettes can make pregnant women exposed to nicotine and other toxic chemicals in e-cigarettes.
- Steam produced from electronic cigarettes is not water vapor. It contains nicotine and can contain other chemicals that can interfere with health and pollute the air.
- Steam produced by e-cigarettes and liquids in e-cigarettes is dangerous. Children and adults can be poisoned by swallowing, inhaling, or absorbing the liquid through the skin or eyes.
- Additional chemicals that are dangerous or possibly dangerous have been found in some e-cigarettes. These chemicals, such as those containing metals, volatile organic compounds, and nitrosamines. These levels tend to be lower than tobacco cigarettes, but there is no way to find out how big the harmful content of e-cigarettes is because they have not been regulated.
Other research also shows the danger of vape. Reporting from sciencenews, Research shows that chemicals in electric cigarettes can damage lung tissue and reduce the ability of lung cells to keep the lungs from germs and other harmful substances. This is because the nicotine content in cigarettes causes lung cells to be easily penetrated by substances from outside the body.
Not only that, the danger of vape can encourage the culture of smoking in children, as explained by Jessica, the study leader from the University of Southern California, United States.
In fact, because of the danger of the vape, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned all countries in the world to ban children, pregnant women and productive age women from smoking electric cigarettes.
So, do you still want to keep smoking after knowing the dangers of vape? Love your body and the people around you.
Alert! electric cigarette prone to explode
Besides having a health hazard, electric cigarettes can also explode. Yes, everything that is electric definitely requires electricity to operate it. Likewise with vape, the flow of electricity obtained from a battery is also at risk of exploding or burning. In fact, several explosions caused by vape are quite severe.
Quoted from NBC News, Dr. Anne Wagner from the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) Burn Center, revealed that her team had handled burns due to electric cigarette explosions. The explosion is quite fatal, some people even need a skin transplant.
The battery of an electric cigarette can explode anytime and anywhere. In many cases, e-cigarettes explode when stored in the user's pants pocket. Some users are not aware of this. Not only that, vape can also explode when you are engrossedvaping.
So why can vape explode?
There are many factors that can cause your electric cigarette battery to explode. Some of them are due to overuse or let the battery continue to connect to electricity, even though it is fully charged. It could also be due to incorrect usecharger.
Use that is not neat will lead to excessive vape of your vape. There are some manufacturers that do offer protection against excessive heat. However, it does not rule out the possibility that an explosion will still occur. In addition, failure in vape production can also be the cause of the electric cigarette you use exploding.
The vape battery itself is a lithium-ion type, this type is good forportable devices, or easy to carry. This type of battery is also often used on cellphones. Actually, this type of battery is quite safe to use and is rarely found burning or exploding.
However, on vape, lithium-ion has a different structure, which is cylindrical. When the battery seal breaks, the pressure on the cylinder vape increases. Because of battery and container failures, explosions can occur.
Venkat Viswanathan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, quoted by NBC News, explained that the electrolyte in the battery is equivalent to gasoline. So when a short circuit occurs, there is a surge of heat which causes electrolytes to burn easily.
Therefore, you need to use the right one. For example, like keeping your electronic cigarette away from metal objects and keeping it away from the sun's heat.
You need to be careful, temperatures of 10 to 46 degrees Celsius are included in extreme temperatures. You need to know, explosions can occur without warning or signs.
