A lot of smokers around the world have taken advantage of the benefits that electronic cigarettes provide. These include reduced nicotine dependence, increased safety of the body’s affected organs such as lungs and heart, less risks of immune system failure, enhanced mood, and a lot more. For women, their skin’s aesthetic value was restored as smoking dries it up. The bad odor that tobacco carries also sticks. Electronic cigarettes, for all we know are odorless. Tobacco chemicals also target the brain.
The population of smokers is not only composed of adult men and women but also kids under the age of 18. Take a look around and you will see a group of 14-year olds puffing menthol flavored cigarettes on the street actually. In reality, these two sectors of the society share the same effect of smoking real tobacco. Both may develop life-threatening diseases. However, the minor have weaker resistance compared to adults. As time goes by, the number of minors who smokes has increased to almost 30 percent. The public figures that if electronic cigarettes saved many tobacco-junkies around the world, it will be reasonable to make the device accessible as well to the young. How can e-cigarette help these kids turn their back on real tobacco if they are not allowed to get hold of it? This is not the case though.
In the US, the sale of electronic cigarettes is limited to individuals who are only of legal age. The legalization excluded boys and girls who are below 18 due to the impurities found when the US Food and Drug Administration conducted a product analysation. Small traces of carcinogens or cancer-causing chemical were found after all in the e-juice that is vaporized. Diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical present in anti-freeze was also named. These findings drove the FDA to put limitation on the availability of the device which can be easily ordered online or acquired in malls and certain stores. The restrictions were issued in 2009. The sale of the electronic cigarettes in different countries is limited to adults over 18 as well.
Some people assume that the ban lasts only until the authorities stopped noticing which will be soon. It would be impossible to monitor these ladies and gents 24/7 from school to the house and vice versa. There are a lot of ways that they can get hold of the electronic cigarette and in time, no one would mind.
There had been a lot of issues surrounding the electronic cigarette’s availability, contents, effects, and social impact. Despite the positive result since it was circulated around the world especially to the health of smokers, different government agencies cannot completely open the gates of the dam for electronic cigarette. This is a logical move since it is the authorities’ responsibility to protect the people. It justifies the limitations imposed by local and national government on the use of electronic cigarettes among minors. People are aware however that in time, more developments will arise.
