November: Vaping is not safe, Okay. Lung Cancer Awareness Month
It has been long established that smoking cigarettes is terrible for your lungs. But vaping, a relatively new type of recreational drug use, though not as harmful as smoking, is still harmful to one's body. It is steadily growing in popularity with adolescents in the U.S. with more than 2 million U.S. middle and high school students reporting using them. To define vaping, vaping is the act of heating up a substance and inhaling along with exhaling the resulting nicotine fumes of that substance from a device. Some of the effects of vaping on your lungs are the small passageways in your lungs becoming damaged, developing lung disease along with heart disease, and increasing your chance of having a heart attack. Not only that, but once you start vaping you increase your chance of starting to smoke cigarettes. Damaging your lungs even more. So if a friend or peer offers you a vape pen or e-cigarette, say no, and educate others that though vaping is safer than smoking, it does not mean it's safe.
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