Smoking/Vaping Effects the Body

By: Emma Jorgensen 

Sources:  5 vaping facts, https://www.cnn.com/cnn10, Smoking (for Teens) | Nemours KidsHealth, https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/depression

Vaping can affect your body in many ways and can even ruin lives. “Nicotine is the primary agent in regular cigarettes and e-cigarettes, and it is highly addictive. It causes you to crave a smoke and suffer withdrawal symptoms if you ignore the craving. Nicotine is a toxic substance. It raises your blood pressure and spikes your adrenaline, which increases your heart rate and the likelihood of having a heart attack.” 

When I spoke to Eli Lowen, a Cal Young student, he had some thoughts on this topic. He feels that, “vaping is very bad for you and affects your body in bad ways.” Smoking can even cause body fat to increase. According to Wiley Online Library, “both starting smoking and spending a lifetime smoking cigarettes was associated with an increase in abdominal fat, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Addiction.  

Further analysis showed that the increase may be in visceral fat, said lead study author Dr. Germán Carrasquilla, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Visceral fat isn’t visible — it surrounds your organs within your abdomen. It’s normal and healthy for visceral fat to make up about 10% of your body’s total fat, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Too much visceral fat, however, can create inflammation, contributing to chronic disease.” 

As you read and look through the sources in the text above you will see all the details about how bad smoking and vaping really affects your body.  It can even cause death, that alone proves how bad it really is for you as you read on there are so many details on how it can affect your life. Vaping during pregnancy can cause birth defects and even cause harm to your baby. When you want to vape or smoke you have to think about the side effects from it: headaches, cough, shortness of breath, nausea, chest pain and asthma. Vaping at young ages is very bad for you as well. The legal age to consume any nicotine is 21. Overall, vaping has many affects on the body, none of them good.