Summary Of The Passage Two Cheers For E-Cigarettes

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Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes are bad, and a lot of people have found success by replacing the habit with e-cigarettes. One day e-cigarettes will take the replacement of actual cigarettes. From the passage, Two Cheers for E-Cigarettes, by Joe Nocera e-cigarettes help people who are addicted to “deadly products” give them an alternative. This passage also talk about the ingredients in actual cigarettes that are not in the e-cigarettes to make them better for you then actual cigarettes. In paragraph four, in this passage, it says “The electronic cigarette is the first harm-reduction product to gain serious traction among American smokers.” This passage also says in paragraph three, people who “vape” ( inhaling their cigarette) is not going to die from it.From the passage, L.A. Bans E-cigarettes in Parks, Restaurant and Workplaces, by David Zahniser says e-cigarettes are advertise safer alternative to cancer-causing products. Also in this passage e-cigarettes help wean heavy smokers off their habit. …show more content…
e-cigarettes does not give you tobacco poison. Using e-cigarettes help make actual cigarettes antiquated ( paragraph 10). All these examples are from the passage Two Cheers for E-Cigarettes and L.A. Bans E-cigarettes in Parks, Restaurant and Workplaces. In a decade e-cigarettes are going to take over the place of actual cigarettes. One out of every five Americans is using e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes have the same rules has actual cigarettes in paragraph one in the passage, L.A. Bans E-Cigarettes in Parks, Restaurants, and Workplaces. Groups such as the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free kids are united in their opposition to e-cigs. E-cigarettes uses in teens has doubled for 2011 to 2012 because similarity of old fashioned tobacco

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