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by Malinda Farrell5 views·Updated Aug 7, 2021
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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is Melinda Farrell.
  3. This is my persuasive speech.
  4. Today's day is August 6, 2021 and today's speech password
  5. is popcorn.
  6. How many of you are familiar with vaping devices of
  7. any kind?
  8. They go from a variety of names ranging from Hyde
  9. to smoke to mods, to jules, but regardless they are
  10. all a habit forming way of inhaling.
  11. One of the most problematic and addictive drugs known as
  12. nicotine. E cigarettes were invented in 2003 by Chinese Pharmacist
  13. Tom Week, an attempt to help cigarette smokers quit.
  14. I personally didn't think about purchasing a Vape for many
  15. years after I had smoked cigarettes of which there was
  16. only a handful.
  17. So for me and many others the draw to vaping
  18. had nothing to do with quitting smoking cigarettes but more
  19. the societal impact that they've been had on us as
  20. teenagers. I can remember the first time I even thought
  21. about purchasing of ape, I was 16 years old, walking
  22. behind a grown woman who had a box mod which
  23. for those of you who may not know are the
  24. bigger devices that blowout more paper.
  25. I can remember it smelling like cotton candy and that's
  26. all I needed to know that I wanted one and
  27. from then on was that the danger of E cigarettes
  28. is extensive and also very valid and concrete.
  29. In August of 2019 alone, 678 people were hospitalized in
  30. the US due to lung-related illness.
  31. The lung related illness was targeted and linked directly to
  32. the use of vaping products.
  33. Now 678 people might not seem like a large or
  34. daunting number, But the median age of those admitted was
  35. 24. So that's a little more scary.
  36. Makes a little more real For me.
  37. At 21 I know if I was admitted for a
  38. lung-related illness due to something that I considered almost a
  39. hobby or just a bad habit, I would be mortified
  40. and also fear for the rest of my life's health.
  41. Common additives and vaping devices are dia settle, which is
  42. a food additive formaldehyde, which is which causes heart and
  43. lung disease and is also commonly known as putting on
  44. corpses as well as acrolein, which is a weed and
  45. pesticide killer.
  46. I think that if we advertise that more than everything
  47. else that has to do with tapes, no one would
  48. pick it up or There would be very few because
  49. I know that if I was told that at 16,
  50. I probably would've never touched one.
  51. Along with the danger, There are the risks obviously a
  52. nicotine addiction, mountain throat irritation, coughing and wheezing, asthma, chest
  53. pain, mood pressure, heart rate, upset stomach and nausea.
  54. That wasn't scary enough along with quitting.
  55. Those comes withdrawals, withdrawal symptoms are extensive as well.
  56. Um symptoms.
  57. Some of the symptoms include anxiety cravings, depression, difficulty concentrating,
  58. increased appetite, irritability, restlessness and sleep sleep difficulties.
  59. And that's only to name a handful.
  60. I feel it's better to avoid nicotine altogether than have
  61. to deal with the extensive period of the withdrawal phase.
  62. I also feel that that's why so many people give
  63. in to continuing their nicotine addiction after they try and
  64. quit. It's really hard to quit when you have to
  65. deal with these symptoms from ranging from days to weeks
  66. to months.
  67. Some people feel better after a week.
  68. Some it takes two months and regardless, I think that
  69. it's easier to give in than tough it out through
  70. those symptoms.
  71. Me and my fiance recently quit smoking nicotine smoking vapes
  72. and for him it was more the sleep difficulties in
  73. the irritability.
  74. For me it was irritability as well as difficulty concentrating.
  75. We powered through.
  76. I'm not saying it was easy though, stemming on from
  77. that. This is an actual screenshot of my actual google
  78. search history.
  79. When I look up disposable vaping devices as you can
  80. see, they are bright in color.
  81. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes as
  82. well as flavors and puff count, but stemming off of
  83. that, the future.
  84. So when we think of the future, we think of
  85. the younger generations and I feel that the vaping companies
  86. are targeting them directly.
  87. They will never say that and come out and say,
  88. oh we're targeting, you know, underage kids.
  89. But the fact that they have more than just tobacco
  90. and menthol flavors.
  91. If I go back and show you, they range from
  92. pena colada to blue raspberry, to watermelon, to coca cola.
  93. But regardless, they're advertising bright colors and flavors which appeal
  94. to Children.
  95. People want to quit as well separately.
  96. Over 100,000 young people aged 13 to 24 enrolled in
  97. a free text message vaping cessation program within its first
  98. year, which demonstrates a strong demand for vaping support.
  99. The program, the free text program is called, this is
  100. quitting. I enrolled as soon as I started this project
  101. and since then they have sent me several texts, um,
  102. recommending what to do instead personally for me, I find
  103. that fidgeting and chewing gum is really helpful as well
  104. as drinking more water whenever I think about it.
  105. They also send messages from other people that subscribe to
  106. it, giving motivational messages on why you should quit or
  107. what it does to your body and how healthy you'll
  108. feel after the fact.
  109. And I find it really helpful.
  110. I thought about it a lot less and they send
  111. me a couple of day.
  112. So it's really helpful during downtime when I when I
  113. keep thinking about it or I want to reach for
  114. something and they send me a little message and I'm
  115. like, can't do it anymore.
  116. So I find it really helpful.
  117. I also think it's really important that you see that
  118. 13 year olds enrolled in this program.
  119. So obviously it's affecting the younger generation.
  120. All of this being said.
  121. I think it's important to stop vaping now rather than
  122. later. If we imagine a world in 50, 60 years
  123. when we're all old and gray and we have to
  124. explain to our grandkids why we are suffering from lung
  125. illness or lung cancer or lung disease or even cardiovascular
  126. because of a silly habit that we picked up to
  127. kill time.
  128. That doesn't sound appealing.
  129. But I feel like the future is optimistic, but it
  130. can only be optimistic if we do something now rather
  131. than later.
  132. So I encourage all of you to share this, this
  133. these facts and this information with those you love and
  134. stop this trend in its tracks.