Reporting from Science Alerte, Friday (18/9/2020), after starting to compare the three terms for emissions electronic cigarette Among 791 college students, the researchers found that when using the word “vapor,” students felt the risk was lower than that of regular cigarettes.
On the other hand, students who were asked questions using the words “chemical” or “aerosol” were twice as likely to describe emissions as hazardous or very hazardous substances. “
They are also more likely to support a 100 percent tobacco-free campus policy.
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“The campus environment is smoke-free and free tobacco has always been a sensible public health measure, and especially today, given the strong relationship between use tobacco and transmission of Covid-19 among young people, “said public health scientist Matthew Rossheim of George Mason University.
Colleges and universities are encouraged to adopt a free campus policy immediately tobacco to help prevent the spread of the Corona Virus.
Since 2012, the number of smoke-free universities in the United States has more than tripled.
However, 1 in 6 campuses still do not include e-cigarettes in the regulation.
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In a 2017 report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of middle and high school students said they were exposed to product emissions tobacco from ordinary cigarettes in public places, whether indoors or outdoors.
U.S. general surgeons say, consumption increases electronic cigarette among young people as a public health “epidemic”, and scientists fear it could reverse decades of hard work in the use of tobacco.
Terms such as ‘vapor’, which tends to minimize the risk of exposure to others, may greatly contribute to such widespread use.
With recent evidence showing, that people are using vape or electronic cigarette at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19, public health experts stressed taking action to minimize the risk electronic cigarette, especially on campuses that are reopening amid the pandemic.
This article has been published on Kompas.com with the title “Scientists Warn Electric Cigarette Puffs Contain Dangerous Substances”
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