E cigarettes will make your breasts fall off

Okay, so no one has really said that E cigarettes will make your mammaries melt, but just think what a deterrent that would be for your high school daughter if she thought that. I mean smoking may still be cool for them, but it will be a lot less cool if they are walking around like a prepubescent boy.

The reality is that E cigs are loaded with problems and not the panacea that some thought they were.  I can hear the advocates howling in my ear, “But E cigs will reduce the number of both kids and adults smoking real tobacco, and that’s a good thing.” Once they get down from their hypocritical high horse, they will see studies pouring in that show the presupposition was not true.  Numerous studies are appearing that actually say the opposite, that E Cigs are responsible for increased cancer stick use in some populations, especially younger kids. One commentator went as far to say that E cigs were like a gateway drug to Marlboros. 

Here’s a big red flag, big tobacco has a huge financial interest in E cigs.  Is it good business sense to invest in something that is supposed to hurt your other product line?  Of course not, and the executives at the cigarette companies knew this dirty little secret before the general public. David Railton, writing in Medical News Today states, “Samir Soneji — an associate professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College in Lebanon, NH — says that although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as smoking cessation tools, relatively few e-cigarette users are able to quit smoking successfully. Rather, e-cigarette use may actually lead to people taking up smoking.”

E-cigarettes could lead to more than 1.5 million years of life lost because their use could substantially increase the number of adolescents and young adults who eventually become cigarette smokers."

Oops! We didn’t think the general public would figure this one out.

Even if you discount the idea that starting with E cigs, under the auspices that it is “safer”, doesn’t lead to more smoking, the little electronic smoke makers have some intrinsic problems on their own. A recent study reported by Medical News Today found that teenagers who had used e-cigarettes had three times the amount of toxic compounds in their bodies than teenagers who had never vaped.  Granted, these toxins may not cause cancer or make junior grow three eyes, but who wants additional toxins.  We get enough of those things from just breathing city air or baby sitting your chain smoking senile uncle.  

Apparently the little heating coils in the e cigs that make the smoke can also spew forth toxic metals and damage DNA.  I don’t know about you, but my DNA is about as damaged as it can tolerate and doesn’t appreciate filling my lungs with residue from miniature radiators. 

This is a no brainer…just don’t do it.  Don’t inhale any toxins into your lungs from tobacco, a heating coil, or Elmer’s Glue.