On October 30, 2019, the Notice on Further Protecting Minors from E-cigarettes was officially released, and the "Online Ban Order" for e-cigarettes was implemented. However, the sales of offline e-cigarettes are still hot, with sales climbing year by year, and are attracting a large number of teenagers.
According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "2019 China Secondary School Students Tobacco Survey", the proportion of junior high school students who have heard of e-cigarettes is 69.9%, and the e-cigarette use rate is 2.7%, compared with 45% and 1.4% in the same period of 2014, respectively. The number of people aged 15 and above in China who smoke e-cigarettes has reached 10 million, of which young people aged 15 to 24 have the highest use rate.
It's summer vacation, parents should pay attention! Xiaobian has seen teenagers carrying school bags holding various styles of electronic cigarettes in their hands more than once when visiting shopping malls and pressing the road.
Today Xiaobian will give you a detailed pickpocket of how harmful e-cigarettes are to teenagers!
ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE
One organic solvent
90% of the components in e-cigarette liquid are organic solvents, usually made by mixing propylene glycol and glycerol in different proportions.
When the e-cigarette is heated, as the temperature increases, propylene glycol and glycerol will crack to produce carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein (hereinafter collectively referred to as small molecule carbonyl groups) and so on. Moreover, with the increase of temperature, the yield of propylene glycol and glycerol cracking to form small molecule carbonyl groups gradually increases. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, etc. have a strong stimulating effect on the respiratory system, and are listed by the International Institute for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Class 1 and Class 2B carcinogens, and their harm can be imagined.
Nicotine
E-cigarettes have always claimed to be tar-free and pose little harm to health, but they never mention the existence and harm of nicotine. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance that, once addicted, is just as difficult to quit as traditional cigarettes. The electronic cigarette does not need to be lit, it is more convenient than the traditional tobacco use, and it can be "two bites" anytime and anywhere, which further aggravates the formation of tobacco addiction.
The results of a study of 91,051 adolescents showed that adolescents were 2.21 times more likely to become cigarette users after using e-cigarettes than those who did not use e-cigarettes. The China Smoking Hazards Report 2020 also points out that the use of e-cigarettes may make it easier for people to use cigarettes, and this phenomenon is particularly evident among adolescents.
In addition to making users dependent, nicotine can also affect the brain development of adolescents, resulting in memory loss and anxiety disorders.
Three scent substances
Aromatic substance refers to edible flavor, which can be said to be the soul of e-cigarette liquid, and the flavor of tobacco liquid is determined by flavor. Some e-cigarette merchants will launch a variety of different flavors of e-cigarettes, such as fruit flavor, to attract young people.
The safety of spices in e-cigarettes has always been an area of concern. 2,3-Butanedione, 2,3-pentanedione are often added as flavor raw materials in e-cigarette liquids because of their creamy aroma. Studies have shown that 2,3-butanedione or 2,3-pentanedione inhaled into the lungs by heating in e-cigarettes can aggravate respiratory inflammation and even form "popcorn lungs".
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If you have violations such as selling e-cigarettes to teenagers, please report them through the 12345 and 12313 channels, and at the same time call on parents to fully understand the harm of e-cigarettes, jointly supervise and jointly govern, prevent minors from contacting e-cigarettes, and concentrate on protecting the healthy growth of adolescents.
Source: Baoshan Disease Control
Editor: Sheng Jie