Closed-system product designs were sold by 83% (10/12) of tobacco-owned brands. Results: Among the 433 websites examined in 2016-2017, 12 were owned by major tobacco companies, 162 operated a physical vape shop, and 259 were internet-only operations. We compared product designs, marketing claims, and age-based warnings presented by types of e-cigarette producers: major tobacco companies, independent vape shops, and independent internet-only companies. Methods: In 2016-2017, we revisited 466 e-cigarette brand websites surveyed in 2013-2014, 288 of which were extant, and identified 145 new English-language websites. Objective: This paper presents how e-cigarette brand websites surveyed in 2013-2014 evolved by 2016-2017, and how the websites run by different types of e-cigarette producers currently differ. Understanding of the evolving composition of different types of e-cigarette brand websites is currently underdeveloped. Many brands maintain retail websites that present e-cigarette marketing claims and sell directly to consumers.
These forms of tobacco also contain harmful chemicals and nicotine. Some people smoke tobacco in cigars and water pipes (hookahs). Are other forms of tobacco also dangerous?īesides cigarettes, there are several other forms of tobacco.
Mothers who breathe secondhand smoke while pregnant are more likely to have preterm labor and babies with low birth weight. Children exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher risk of ear infections, colds, pneumonia, bronchitis, and more severe asthma. This includes heart disease and lung cancer. Your smoke is also bad for other people - they breathe in your smoke secondhand and can get many of the same problems as smokers do. What are the health risks of secondhand smoke? Nicotine addiction makes it much harder for people to quit smoking. Smoking also causes addiction to nicotine, a stimulant drug that is in tobacco. Their babies are also at higher risk of dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Women who smoke while pregnant have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems. Vision problems, such as cataracts and macular degeneration (AMD).
Damage to and thickening of blood vessels, which causes high blood pressure.Lung diseases, such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).Cancers, including lung and oral cancers.It can also cause many other cancers and health problems. Cigarette smoking causes nearly one in five deaths in the United States. It harms nearly every organ of the body, some that you would not expect. There's no way around it smoking is bad for your health.