Do you know what is the The gateway drug effect?
If you did not know that then you probably would have also believed that Vaping is ok!
read on!
There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic!
Now unfortunately there is another evil which is like the stepping stone to the cigarette and has been found to be as dangerous as the cigarette! But why would a device which does not emit tar be dangerous!?
Remember that lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors when confronted with a case, thought it a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence! It’s like how many doctors have seen a case of Rabies! (I have!)
Mechanisation and mass marketing towards the end of the 19th century popularised the cigarette habit, however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic! Even when many studies saw the link cigarette manufacturers disputed this evidence, because they had the money and lots to lose!
It is the same with e cigarettes!
In fact the propaganda was so strong that as far as in 1960s, many used to dismiss the association of smoking with lung cancer! In spite of the fact that there were so many evidence and observations to the contrary!
Now even though there are some evidences that vaping is bad; the real issue is the gateway drug effect!
The gateway drug effect is also called the stepping-stone theory or escalation hypothesis, or progression hypothesis!
This is a comprehensive catchphrase for the often observed effect that the use of a psychoactive substance is coupled to an increased probability of the use of further substances.
Possible reasons for the connection include environmental influence, impulsive people seeking both soft and hard drugs , alterations in the brain due to earlier substance exposure, as well as similar attitudes of people who use different substances, and therefore experience a “common liability to addiction”.
In simple words you can understand that this is like a STEPPING STONE! The next step has a very high probability to be smoking!
Irony is that the e cigarette was the device made to assist in the stepping down of addicts from smoking to non smoking and now there is a high risk of it becoming the stepping stone to full blown smoking!
Now the greatest fact about humans is that everyone is unique just like everyone else! So this may not be applicable to everyone who takes the first step! Which is why ‘every step’ is important! If you stop with the spark then you will not be the reason for the fire!
For all that talk about e cigarettes; a special dedication to the great first stated about the fact that when the rate of smoking increases; the rate of lung cancer increases! Dr Isaac Adler in his classic book called the Primary Malignant Growths of the Lungs and Bronchi!
An ode to the legend!
Now do not smoke or Vape! Just have warm water and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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