Juarez City.- Vaping devices or electronic cigarettes directly affect the health of people, particularly minors, according to the Municipal System for the Integral Protection of Girls, Boys and Adolescents, which is why the organization issued an exhortation to parents to Take precautions with your daughters and sons.
Luis Hasan Ortiz Enríquez, head of the System, said that in the state of Chihuahua there are 554 thousand smokers between the ages of 12 and 65; More than 22 thousand adolescents between 12 and 17 years old smoke and more than 43 thousand adolescents have had experience with electronic cigarettes, which led them to try the regular cigarette, which increases the smoking epidemic.
Likewise, he pointed out, there are studies that show that passive smokers, those who are around active smokers but only breathe their waste, also have effects even if they are electronic cigarettes and vapor.
He indicated that many parents are unaware of the subject, so they should know that vaping affects children by causing cough or shortness of breath, pain in the chest or abdomen, rapid heartbeat, fever and chills, nausea or vomiting, burns. and explosion injuries from defective devices, diarrhea, rapid breathing, lung disease, and nicotine poisoning.
They also cause problems in the parts of the brain that develop the processes of attention, learning, moods and impulses.
Ortiz Enríquez reported that the vape contains propylene glycol, which is found in machines that generate artificial smoke, as well as dimethyl ether, whose flammable substance is used to burn warts.
It also contains ethyl propionate, a component that causes bad odor in sweat; benzyl alcohol, used in various soaps, creams and cleaning products; isoamyl acetate, substances released in the stinger of bees; glycerin, used in beauty cosmetics; natural or artificial flavorings; eugenol, used to kill fish in aquariums, as well as linalool, used as an insecticide against flies and cockroaches.
The local system asks parents to inform themselves about the issue, talk to their children and if they discover that they use the devices, listen to them and look for institutions that offer specialized addiction care services.
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