E-Cigs on smoke-free campus

changes lately. According to Phil Wahba from Fortune, it is said that by the year 2018, the amount of E-Cigs in the United States is expected to grow nearly 24 percent per year, with about $1.5 billion in the market.

phenomenon is E-Cigs.

The E-Cig has had a rise to fame because of its so called safe and harmless vapor that it releases.

Development Center. One of the designated smoking areas on the Pierce College campus is Lot 7, right near the Child Development Center.

CHRIS ESCOBAR cescobar.roundupnews@gmail.com @cescobar46

Smoking tobacco is a bad influence on people, especially when they start at a young age.

Tobacco can cause many issues all over your body. It can damage areas such as the heart, lungs, vision, blood cells and so on. It’s disturbing to see young people smoke because tobacco is detrimental in many different ways.

Now you see commercials from people who are trying to make a change to convince people to quit smoking. That is why former addicts are being shown and how smoking has affected their lives when they started at a young age.

It is disturbing to see people who struggled with nicotine addiction broadcasted to the world.

Ever since those commercials appeared on television, there has been a better solution to help people who smoke kick the habit.

Electronic cigarettes and hookah pens have been introduced to the world as a healthier alternative for both smokers and the environment. They also get people to smoke less tobacco and realize the benefits that come with this practice.

E-Cigs have been making

The amount of tobacco cigarettes in the United States has dropped 29.6 percent since 2004 and continues to decrease as time goes on. In the spring of 2010, thanks in part to the Working Environment Committee, Pierce prohibited smoking on campus and has been smoke-free for five years.

The only exception the WEC offered was that students can only smoke in designated areas. That was probably a better way keep students who smoke outside of campus and not have them affect other students. What has been most useful around campus are E-Cigs and hookah pens.

JORDAN WILLIAMS jwilliams.roundupnews@gmail.com @JWRoundUp

Signs are posted, students are warned, designated areas have been made, but students still find a way to smoke anywhere they please.

It isn’t a secret that students take advantage of the smoking zones we have on campus, but now students think that if they smoke electronic cigarettes, it means they can smoke anywhere.

A phenomenon that has been sweeping across the country over the last few years has made its way into Pierce College. That

In reality, the E-Cigs have been found to be just as, if not more, harmful than cigarettes, so much so that Chicago, New York and Los Angeles have banned them in public places.

Researchers from the University of Southern California published a study in August of 2014 that stated the second hand vapors from E-Cigs have a significant increase in the harmful metals chromium, nickel, lead and zinc.

When used at high temperatures, E-Cigs can release a cancer-causing chemical called formaldehyde, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine in January of this year.

That formaldehyde can travel into classrooms and even worse, affect the children at the Child

This toxin can raise the lifetime risk of cancer five to 15 times more than the risk caused by smoking.

E-Cigs can be beneficial, but the endangerment to the user as well as others outweighs its benefits.

It’s bad enough that students have to deal with normal second hand smoke, so to allow potentially more harmful E-Cigs on campus is a mistake.

If major cities have banned E-Cigs in public places, Pierce College must do the same.