Find Out Why Using E-cigarettes For Dripping Can Cause Cancer

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Feb 21, 2017 07:42 PM EST

Teens who vape claim that they utilize e-cigarettes in an alternative method known as dripping. E-cigarettes heat liquid turning it into steam, which the user inhales and exhales.

According to the Journal of Pediatrics, dripping generates fuller clouds of vapor produces a stronger sensation in the throat and elevating the flavors. The traditional process of vaping includes reservoir and wick. These directly place liquid to the heating component within the e-cigarette.

The method enables the user to administer manually the liquid right away to an uncovered heating coil. This style is used for thicker smoke production, more flavors, and a stronger heat.

The Food and Drug Administration started controlling all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes in June 2009, The Archway reported. Dripping produces higher heating coil temperatures causing the release of dangerous chemicals called volatile aldehydes like formaldehyde and acrolein. Both chemicals are cancerous to humans, director of the University at Albany's School of Public Health, Dr. David Carpenter said.

These chemicals are, likewise, linked with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease causing difficulty in breathing. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, a professor at the department of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine transmitted dripping scenes assessing temperatures and emissions.

"The aldehyde emissions were much greater than what we measured using conventional e-cigarettes," Sarin said. The temperatures and emissions accelerate radically as snorting increases and liquid are being consumed she added.

Some content of e-cigarettes for dripping includes propylene glycol and glycerine that generate high levels of carcinogenic compounds when heated to elevated temperatures. Furthermore, nicotine is contained in the e-liquid flavors.

Since e-cigarettes are now very famous for teenagers, they become as addictive as regular cigarettes. These are currently the most-used form of tobacco among adolescents in the United States as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discovered in December 2016 report.

E-cigarettes usage increased by 900 percent among high-school students from 2011 to 2015. Moreover, it surpasses the traditional products like cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and hookahs. Lots of people have no idea that aromatic flavored liquids contain nicotine, which is very addictive.

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