HEALTHCARE. Vapes are not a safe alternative to regular cigarettes, but a harmful habit that causes lung damage. Epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko explained.

He explained why he advocates for a complete ban on these electronic devices.

Contrary to popular belief, vapes not only fail to help people quit smoking, but also trigger pneumonia. Onishchenko is convinced of the need for a complete ban on vaping sales nationwide and believes that partial restrictions will be ineffective.

Not a safer alternative

Electronic smoking devices, vapes and e-cigarettes, have sparked scientific and public debate. Initially, manufacturers marketed vapes as a safer alternative to cigarettes and a way to gradually quit smoking.

Vaper’s Disease

However, researchers agree that e-cigarettes do not help people quit smoking. Regarding health risks, it quickly became clear that vaping can cause ‘vaper’s disease ’, which affects the lungs.

Banned

Some countries have introduced complete or partial bans on vaping, but the effectiveness of these measures remains a matter of debate.

For example, after Australia banned the over-the-counter sale of vapes, many teenagers began purchasing devices on the underground market. Meanwhile, supporters of the ban note that overall vaping use has declined as a result.

Gennady Onishchenko explained how vaping differs fundamentally from traditional smoking.

‘Tobacco was given to us over 400 years ago by the French diplomat Jean Nicot, nicotine was named after him. He played a major role in popularizing tobacco smoking.

Russia Leads

The law adopted in Russia in 2013 was recognized by experts as one of the best in its field. Therefore, the fight against traditional tobacco smoking in Russia is already at a high level and does not require additional measures.

Horrendous Damage

It should be noted that smoking causes enormous economic and human damage, reducing life expectancy by approximately ten years.

When tobacco manufacturers saw a new opportunity in vapes and e-cigarettes, they launched a clever advertising campaign.

Profiteers Lies

Its main idea was to contrast vapes with regular cigarettes: supposedly, electronic systems were less harmful and even ‘help you quit smoking.’

Pure Nicotine

Firstly, when a person smokes a cigarette, they also inhale harmful combustion products. But with vaping, the product is pure nicotine. This increases addiction. Secondly, capsules and flavorings use oily liquids.

When they heat up and the user inhales them, they form a very fine aerosol. The finer the droplet, the deeper it penetrates into the lungs.

When the alveoli become lined with an oily film, suffocation occurs: oxygen can’t penetrate it, and red blood cells are depleted of it, vaper pneumonia develops.

Is vaper’s disease treatable?

‘The logic behind this question is: let everyone continue smoking, and then we’ll just cure them. When the lungs are practically destroyed, it’s a very difficult case for medicine.’

Vaping doesn’t make things any easier for smokers, and instead, it’s a clever way to lure children into smoking. Vaping needs to be completely banned, and I consider the current attempts to limit its distribution a shameful compromise.

Alcohol producers also resist restrictions, but do so covertly. And tobacco companies believe they’re acting legally because they’re boosting the country’s economy.

Kill their own kids for profit

It’s no secret, though, that they’re even willing to sacrifice their own children for money. But when doctors join the chorus of vaping advocates, they deserve to be held accountable for it.

Vapes are absolute poison

The body doesn’t need them. I understand when we demand that food ingredients be disclosed: we can’t live without them; it’s our natural need.

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But when we demand that poison in products be disclosed, we’re simply misleading people. So, by that logic, let’s start selling potassium cyanide, simply listing the exact ingredients.

Ban Vapes

We should just ban vapes, and that’s it. Talk of disclosing ingredients is a ploy to distract from the problem, not solve it.

It’s the cynicism of a society that doesn’t want to part with the big money it makes from selling vapes and smoking liquids. Humanity already lives with tobacco; why add a new problem and addiction?’

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