Evaluative Commentary ELC230

The article illustrates the disadvantages of e-cigarette. The author’s tone is serious and he urges to ban the usage of e-cigarette in Malaysia. Firstly, Firstly, e-cigarette should be banned because it attracts interest among students. The incre incremen ments ts are worry worrying ing becau because se more more and more more studen students ts are are smokin smoking. g. In fact, fact, 5 teenagers below the age of !" years old start smoking everyday. They are attracted to the new devices and want to try them out like e-cigarette devices which are flavored and more attractive looking. looking. Furthermore, the users va#e in #ublic #laces #laces and tend to continuously continuously smoking till the last dro# of li$uid. This cause ma%or nuisance. It contains less social stigma so women tend to smoke the e-cigarette. Moreover Moreover,, other other develo#e develo#ed d and develo#i develo#ing ng countries countries have banned banned it, so should should Malaysia. &-cigarette has '.() of nicotine content and other dangerous chemicals which cause lung cancer. * *ccording ccording to +niversity of *thens, nicotine is a toic #oison that is similar  to #esticides. It is sold as nicotine re#lacement but it contains many dangerous chemicals so that e#lained why the orld ealth /rgani0ation said that e-cigarette is not #roven yet to be a re#lacement for nicotine addiction. &-cigarette are widely available online and offline and there is no age limit when buying it. e strongly agree with the author that e-cigarette has many bad effects among us and we should ban the usage of e-cigarette because according to ired, new research correlates smoking from va#es to a #lethora of health issues, including 1asthma, lung lung infl inflam amma mati tion on,, M23* M23* infe infect ctio ion n risk risks s and and e#o e#osu sure re to harm harmfu full chem chemic ical als4 s4.. r  6onstantinos Farsalinos from the /nassis 7ardiac 3urgery 7entre tested the #resence of  diacetyl and acetyl #ro#ionyl in e-li$uid sam#les and they have been associated with the develo#ment of res#iratory dysfunction when inhaled. *s we mentioned above, women are more attracted attracted to e-cigaret e-cigarette. te. Two Two million million 8ritish 8ritish #eo#le #eo#le use e-cigare e-cigarette tte because because they are seen as 1safe4. 9regnant women who use e-cigarette may be harming their unborn babies, new research shows. +3 tests suggest va#ing damages the foetus’ nervous system, making

it as harmful as smoking tobacco. It may also reduce a new-born’s s#erm count and damage s#erm :*. Furthermore, users are vulnerable to the high risk of battery e#losions due to unconfirmed sources of e-cigarette. /ne such re#ort was on 783 :ews where a man was in%ured when his e-cigarette battery e#loded. In summary, we reaffirm our stand that e-cigarette should be banned in this country for the sake of the net generation’s future.