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Essay about Electronic Cigarette Legalization Analysis

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Since 2008, Electronic Cigarettes have become widely popular across the United States, despite the obvious health benefits the long term health effects of “smoking” electronic cigarettes are still unknown to researchers today. Electronic Cigarettes are the answer to a safer method of consuming nicotine despite its more popular tobacco products. Even though the effects of consuming large amounts of nicotine in a persons’ system is unknown, the unbanning of electronic cigarettes in Los Angeles decrease the harm second-hand smoke causes as well as the health risks associated with toxic tobacco products such as cancer.

Electronic Cigarettes are healthy, not only providing a safer alternative to a person's nicotine craving and a cleaner …show more content…

(Slashdot) Other studies have proven electronic cigarettes to be a healthier substitute such as the Drexel University Study; In this study researchers have proved electronic cigarette vapor to contain contaminant levels far below the considered toxicity levels. (Burstyn, Igor) Electronic cigarettes have shown to have little to no dire health effects on the average smoker today yet these results are ignored when Americans compare this product with the facts of the amount of damage tobacco cigarettes cause each day.

The banning of public use of electronic cigarettes in Los Angeles seem to be harmless yet it may lead American tobacco smokers to revisit their old habits. Electronic cigarettes pose a small threat to American health yet pose a large threat to a multimillion dollar industry. The ingenuity for the creation of electronic cigarettes take away customers from greedy business men, the competition between both industries mislead many politicians into viewing electronic cigarettes as a threat. Previous facts from tobacco industries ignite fear and uncertainty of the future with the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes.

Despite the uncertainty electronic cigarettes cause among Americans however fear is a necessity in life, A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.(Edgar Watson Howe) Fear is what holds a person back and despite the studies and facts on electronic cigarettes Americans still firmly believe

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