E-Cigarettes May Cause Kids to Break into Homes and Turn to a Life of Street Crime, Physician Warns

An emergency medicine physician haswarned that e-cigarettes may lead to kids breaking into homes and turning to a life of street crime in order to feed their addictions to serious drugs.In aHuffington Postcolumn, he claims that due to e-cigarette experimentation:" teenagers — and even younger children — are getting addicted early, which could lead to smoking, and e-cigs can easily become a gateway to trying and developing an addiction to more serious drugs. Addiction correlates to crime. People need to feed their habit, they break into homes to steal things to resell, they commit robberies on the streets, all to get money to feed their addiction. "In the column, the physician also claims that vaping causes popcorn lung:" We know that when inhaled, diacetyl causes a type of bronchitis known as “popcorn lung” — a scarring of the tiny air sacs in the lungs resulting in the thickening and narrowing of the airways. "To put the icing on the cake, he claims that smoking may not be any more hazardous than vaping:" The act of “vaping” is often thought of as a safer alternative to smoking, but that’s not necessarily the case. "The Rest of the StoryNot a day has passed in 2017 that an anti-tobacco group or health professional hasn ' t lied to the public about the health risks of e-cigarettes. The contestants for the 2017 Lie of the Year Award are already lining up in huge numbers, and it ' s only early January.Just to set the records straight, there is no current evidenc...
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