VAPING is when you use a hand-held electronic device to breathe a mist (“vapour”) into your lungs. An e-cigarette, pave pen or other electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) heats a liquid of nicotine, flavouring, propylene glycol and other additives into an aerosol that you inhale through a mouthpiece.

It’s similar to smoking a cigarette, but vaping heats tiny particles out of a liquid rather than burning tobacco. Vaping can cause breathing problems, organ damage, addiction and other conditions.

Vaping works by heating liquid in a small device so you can breathe it into your lungs. The e-cigarette, vape pen or other vaping device heats the liquid in the device to create an aerosol. This isn’t water vapour. Mist from e-cigarettes contains particles of nicotine, flavouring and other substances suspended in air. You breathe these particles into your mouth from the mouthpiece, where they go down your throat and into your lungs.

Vaping devices

An electronic cigarette or vaping device is a device that heats up the liquid nicotine and flavouring for you to breathe in. There are many varieties and they go by different names, including vapes, vape pens or sticks, e-hookahs, hookah sticks, mods and personal vaporizers (PVs). They can also be collectively called electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS).

Most types of e-cigarettes have:

· A cartridge, tank or pod that holds liquid (can be refillable).

· A heating element for turning the liquid into breathable particles (aerosol, commonly called “vapour”).

· A battery to power the heating element.

· A power or control button (some are activated by sensors when you inhale).

· A mouthpiece to breathe in the aerosol.

Vaping and smoking both involve inhaling nicotine and other substances into your lungs. E-cigarettes heat liquid to make an aerosol; cigarettes burn tobacco, which creates smoke.

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Vaping is often thought of as safer than cigarette smoking, but vaping causes health problems, too. Both vaping and smoking are addictive and bring potentially dangerous chemicals into your body.

The levels of many of these chemicals is higher when you burn tobacco. Vaping hasn’t been around long enough to know what kind of long-term damage it might cause.

Damage to lungs

The particles you inhale while vaping can cause inflammation (swelling) and irritation in your lungs. This can lead to lung damage like scarring and narrowing of the tubes that bring air in and out of your lungs. Vaping doesn’t make water vapour. It actually creates an aerosol (or mist) that contains small particles of nicotine, metal and other harmful substances.

What is e-juice

E-liquid, also called e-juice or vape juice, is what vaping devices use to make the vapour you breathe in. They usually contain:

· Flavouring. Each flavouring has its own set of ingredients.

· Nicotine, the addictive and harmful substance in cigarettes and other tobacco products.

· Propylene glycol and glyceri