E-Cigarettes: Good Or Bad?

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E-cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes but it may also cause harm effect for users and public. Based on a report on 18 May by Laura Crotty Alexander , it proven that E-cigarette can cause dangerous germs more difficult to kill. An experiment is carried out and proven that an antibiotic-resistant bacteria which could cause pneumonia is harder to kill by the germ-killing protein fragment which is the nature antibiotic that made by the people’s body. These happen as germ exposed to nicotine-rich vapors emitted a thicker biofilm cover that protected them (Janet Raloff.2014).

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