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Zawiślak Magdalena, Zaniuk Marcin, Karakuła Kaja, Krysa Tomasz, Zimnicki Patryk. Awareness of dangers of using e-cigarettes among society. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(3):76-82. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.03.007 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2020.10.03.007 https://zenodo.org/record/3712150 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2020; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 20.02.2020. Revised: 25.02.2020. Accepted: 16.03.2020. Awareness of dangers of using e-cigarettes among society Magdalena Zawiślak(1), Marcin Zaniuk(1), Kaja Karakuła(1), Tomasz Krysa(1), PatrykZimnicki(1) (1) Student’s Scientific Group at Department of Applied Psychology of Medical University of Lublin, Poland Magdalena Zawiślak: magi.z.97@gmail.com Abstract E-cigarettes were introduced as a new way of quitting smoking and became a popular alternative to regular cigarettes. For a long time, e-cigarettes were considered harmless, however year after a year, new facts about their adverse effects are being discovered. This year in the USA, using e-cigarettes caused a lot of deaths among their users because of the newly discovered disease called EVALI. According to this, we decided to make a research on awareness of dangers associated with using e-cigarettes. We prepared a survey with 283 responses and analyzed literature related to the topic. Responses showed that 71,4% used to smoke cigarettes. Moreover, 81,6% uses or has used e-cigarettes in the past, however, only 4,9% consider them harmless. The most common reasons for using e-cigarettes are: variety of liquid flavors (58,4%), desire to try something new (52,8%) and stress relief (32,9%). Quitting smoking was motivation only for 24,2% of responders. The fact that 72,3% do not plan to quit vaping is an alarming sign. Analysis of literature confirmed results of our survey, showing that there is a group of people using e-cigarettes although they have never smoked. Mostly they are under 20 years old. Results of our study imply the necessity of taking up actions aimed to increase society awareness of dangers associated with using e-cigarettes and to do more research on vaping side effects. Key words: e-cigarettes; vaping; vape; society; teenagers; dangers |
