Healthy Lungs
The process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs.
What is breathing?
Thickening or scarring of tissue, usually as a result of injury or damage.
What is fibrosis?
The substance that is vaporized by the e-cigarette.
What is an e-liquid?
True or False: Young people who vape are more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future.
True
A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms.
What is oxygen?
These are all signs of a collapsed lung and can be caused by vaping.
What are sharp chest/shoulder pains, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing?
This toxic chemical can cause lung disease and contribute to heart disease. It's used to preserve dead bodies during the embalming process.
What is formaldehyde?
True or False: E-cigarette aerosol is harmless water vapor?
False
It is a waste product made by the body. Breathing out clears this from the lungs.
What is carbon dioxide?
True or False: Vaping does not cause lung cancer.
Probably true.
We do know that smoking tobacco forces tiny particles to be deposited deep in the bronchial tree and can lead to the development of cancer. The same may be true for vaping.
This is an herbicide primarily used to kill weeds. It can cause acute lung injury and COPD and may cause asthma and lung cancer.
What is acrolein?
This causes irritability, restlessness, feeling anxious or depressed, trouble sleeping, problems concentrating, and craving nicotine.
What is nicotine withdrawal?
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where O2 and CO2 are exchanged during breathing.
What are the alveoli?
An irreversible condition caused by a buildup of scar tissue in the lungs, blocking the flow of air, and likely linked to the inhalation of diacetyl.
What is popcorn lung?
This food additive is used to deepen e-cigarette flavors and is known to damage small passageways in the lungs.
What is diacetyl?
The percentage of oxygen level reduction in the blood during vaping, making the walls of the blood vessels more rigid and stiff—a symptom often associated with cardiovascular diseases like hypertension and stroke
What is 20%?
This happens through capillaries in the alveoli. Oxygen enters the bloodstream when you inhale and carbon dioxide, a waste gas, moves from your blood to the lungs and is exhaled.
What is gas exchange?
A type of pneumonia that develops when fatty acids (the building blocks of fat) enter the lungs. Can be the result of inhaling oily substances found in e-liquid, which sparks an inflammatory response in the lungs.
What is lipoid pneumonia?
A highly addictive substance found in tobacco products and some e-cigarette liquids.
True or False: Vapes have less nicotine than cigarettes.
False
1 JUUL Pod = 1 pack of cigarettes