VAPING TEEN
Vapes are full of chemicals, bad for the lungs, and detrimental to mental health and they’re spreading across the country.
Vapes have become increasingly accessible to teens all across America. Students have been caught with electronic cigarettes and vaping reports indicate an increased concern in the school with a 23% increase of vaping reports on the StopIt app. The bigger concern may not be the usage, but the damage the devices can cause to teens such as mental development, anxiety, depression and damage to your ability to participate in athletics. There are no pros to vaping, making it just an addictive gamble on your well-being. A teens brain doesn’t fully develop until they’re around 25 years old. At this critical time of development in a teens life, it’s important to take care of themselves. However, with vaping on the rise in teenagers, millions of teens’ brains aren’t getting the development they need. According to the National Library of Medicine, e-cigarettes have shown to lead to hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Vaping makes it more difficult for you to focus and learn, making teenager’s grades drop which limits future opportunities. Nicotine is highly addictive and being dependent on it can worsen a person’s mental health. According to a report by the CDC Foundation, being dependent on nicotine makes symptoms of anxiety and depression even worse. When someone uses vaping as a coping mechanism, the problem is only made worse. According to the American Heart Association, anxiety symptoms were made worse up to 60% by vaping and depression-like symptoms by nearly 50%. The likelihood of developing a neurological disorder while using e-cigarettes during a teens
developmental years significantly increases and makes it difficult to participate in activities in and outside of of school. Vaping doesn’t only take a toll mentally, it also damages your lungs in ways other nicotine products don’t. According to John Hopkins Medicine, vapes contain around 7,000 chemicals and the majority of them are harmful to the human body. Formaldehyde is one of the main chemicals found in e-cigarettes. It makes you extremely susceptible to lung cancer. Shortness of breath is also another concern that impacts a person’s ability to participate in sports or even walk long distances. Although scientists can’t confirm any long-term side-effects because of how new electronic cigarettes are, they do have theories and can draw conclusions based on what they know from other nicotine products based on advertisted as a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, but instead they’re just as bad. The National Library of Medicine says that vaping isn’t any better than smoking, containing all the same negative side effects and dangerous chemicals. The school is making an effort to stop teens from damaging their mind and body with electronic cigarettes. According to Sherri Monhollon, associate principal, the negative impacts of vaping is taught in the required Teen Topics class, offers the chemicals inside vapes. In the beginning vaping was addiction services so students can get help, and works in partnership with SNCO Sheriff and KSDHE. Students are encouraged to help their classmates by remembering this: if you see something, say something.
36.8% - Teens Reported Having Misused Drugs In The Past Month drugabusestatistics.org
Vaping isn’t the only drug abused by teenagers. By the time teenagers are in 12th grade 36.8% of them have misused some kind of drug at least once according to a study done by drugabusestatistics.org. It’s not just vaping that assaults our country. Marijuana and other nicotine products are infiltrating the youth’s lungs and damaging their body and mind. There are multiple places to get help like Adolescent Treatment Programs for Teens in Topeka, KS or The Recovery Village in Kansas City. Other Drug Abuse In Teens
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