A short conversational segment from a YouTube video discussing health risks of e-cigarette use. Speakers list specific flavoring chemicals (cinnamon, vanillin, buttery flavorants, various aldehydes) and link inhaled aerosols to lung lesions, lung collapse, pneumonia, asthma, seizures in teens, and systemic exposure via the bloodstream; they also note aldehydes are carcinogens.
There are a lot of studies now really showing pretty significant effects of E cigarette use on heart and lungs. Not only all the chemicals we've mentioned, but also the flavorants. There's cinnamon, aldehyde, another aldehyde, there's vanillin. There's the buttery flavor that's in there is also a lot of concern. You then take it and really inhale the resulting aerosol. And then we're seeing the lesions on the lungs. We're seeing young people who have been using E cigarettes having lung collapses, pneumonia, asthma. Amongst people who have not had seizures, One of the teens I know who was using four pods a day was having seizures.
Makes sense, because nicotine is a stimulant.
Yes.
It can cause runaway excitability in the brain if too much is taken. So if that's happening in the living child, that can't be good.
That can't be good.
That can't be good.
Lungs, bloodstream, everything.
And all the aldehydes are carcinogens.
Correct.
We know they cause cancer.
Right. And so that's why there's a lot of concern there.
