Name: 抽電子煙比抽菸更傷身嗎？ (Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking?)
Uploaded: 2023-11-15T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 5 min 46 s

One out of every five high school students currently vapes in the US and in the UK, 7% of kids aged 11 to 17 now vape.

在美國，每五名高中生中就有一名抽電子煙，而在英國，11 至 17 歲的孩子中有 7% 抽電子煙。

And that number has nearly doubled in the last two years, so currently more young people Vape than smoke cigarettes.

抽電子煙的人數在過去兩年裡幾乎翻了一番，所以目前抽電子煙的年輕人比抽香菸的多。

But with the news of vape deaths amongst young people, the insane chemical flavoring and lack of regulation amongst new vapes, could science now say that vaping is worse than cigarettes?

但是，隨著電子煙造成年輕人死亡的新聞，瘋狂的化學調味品以及新型電子煙缺乏監管，現在科學界是否可以說，電子煙比香菸更糟糕？

To start, the nicotine in vapes hits your bloodstream and brain faster than cigarettes.

首先，電子煙中的尼古丁比香菸更快進入您的血液和大腦。

This is because vapes consist of a coil that ranges from 110 °C to 1000 °C, which creates thermal conditions for a carrier like propylene glycol, which is literally stage smoke.

這是因為電子煙由一個溫度範圍為 110°C 至 1000°C 的線圈組成，這為丙二醇等載體創造了熱條件，丙二醇實際上是舞台煙霧。

Yes. When you are vaping, you're inhaling like Taylor Swift stage smoke right into your lungs.

是的。 當你吸電子煙時，你就像把泰勒絲舞台的煙霧直接吸入肺部。

Mixed with an active ingredient, most commonly nicotine and chemical flavorings,

與活性成分（最常見的是尼古丁和化學調味料）混合，

the vape smoke hits your lungs in a way that studies show ushers nicotine faster into your bloodstream and brain than cigarettes.

研究表明，電子煙的煙霧會比香菸更快進入你」的肺部，使尼古丁更快進入你的血液和大腦。

Another study found that the sheer way that people like hit vapes like so hard, bro, each puff gives you more nicotine in vapes than in cigarettes.

另一項研究發現，人們喜歡用力吸電子煙，每吸一口電子煙中的尼古丁都比香菸中的尼古丁多。

I always say that the hardest drug I did this year at Pride was when I hit someone's vape at a rave and I was ripped.

我總是說，今年在同志驕傲節上我使用的最強烈的藥物是在一場派對上吸了別人的電子煙，當時我感覺非常迷幻。

This is because when you vape, the nicotine enters your bloodstream through the lungs where it quickly makes its way to your head and passes through the blood-brain barrier to go directly into your brain.

這是因為當你吸電子煙時，尼古丁會透過肺部進入你的血液，並迅速到達你的頭部，並穿過血腦屏障直接進入你的大腦。

Here, the nicotine causes a series of complex biochemical processes to increase dopamine cause feelings of motivation, awareness, concentration, elevated mood and other neurochemical processes that will relax your muscles.

在這裡，尼古丁會引起一系列複雜的生化過程，增加多巴胺，從而產生動力、意識、注意力、情緒升高和其他神經化學過程，從而放鬆肌肉。

It makes you feel mentally aware and alert while physically relaxing it.

它能讓你在身體放鬆的同時，在精神上保持清醒和警覺。

It's an amazing feeling that people get addicted to.

As the nicotine rush ends, cravings begin, and most recent studies show that the cravings appear within four hours of your last nicotine hit.

當尼古丁的快感結束時，渴望就開始了，而最近的研究表明，在最後一次吸食尼古丁後的四個小時內就會出現渴望。

In theory, this whole process is more intense with vapes than cigarettes because vapes have more nicotine in them.

從理論上講，抽電子煙的整個過程比抽香菸更強烈，因為電子煙中含有更多的尼古丁。

Nicotine also alters blood flow in your body, making people with penises lose their penis girth.

尼古丁還會改變體內的血液流動，讓有陰莖的人失去陰莖的周長。

Yep. A bit of watermelon ice can shrink your dick.

是的。一點西瓜風味電子煙就能讓你的小弟弟縮水。

One study found that men who use E-cigarettes are more than twice as likely to experience erectile dysfunction compared to those who don't vape.

一項研究發現，使用電子煙的男性出現勃起功能障礙的可能性是不吸電子煙的男性的兩倍以上。

13,000 men aged 20 and older who had daily E-cigarette use were 2.2 times more likely to report having erectile dysfunction compared to men who never vaped regardless of other risk factors.

13,000 名 20 歲及以上、每天吸電子煙的男性報告患有勃起功能障礙的可能性是從未吸過電子煙的男性的 2.2 倍，無論其他風險因素如何。

Because ED is caused by nicotine and there's more nicotine in vaping than cigarettes, in theory, you will get more erectile dysfunction from vaping.

因為陽痿是由尼古丁引起的，而電子煙中的尼古丁含量比香菸還要多，理論上，你會因為電子煙而出現更多的勃起功能障礙。

Now, you also may have heard of the mysterious vaping deaths that as of February 2020 had 2807 patients hospitalized with severe lung issues from vaping, some of whom were under 18 years old and 68 people ended up dying.

你可能還聽說過神秘的電子煙死亡事件，截至 2020 年 2 月，有 2807 名患者因電子煙出現嚴重肺部問題而住院，其中一些人年齡在 18 歲以下，68 人最終死亡。

What you may not have heard is that these deaths were actually from THC vapes which are less regulated than nicotine vapes.

但你可能沒有聽說過，這些死亡案例其實是因為 THC 電子煙造成的，THC 電子煙的監管比尼古丁電子煙少。

Some of the THC vapes had a chemical called vitamin E acetate in them which when inhaled ravaged people's lungs and alveoli, leaving them with symptoms of coughing, wheezing and chest pain.

有些 THC 電子煙含有一種名為維生素 E 醋酸酯的化學物質，吸入後會破壞人們的肺部和肺泡，導致咳嗽、氣喘和胸痛的症狀。

Doctors were shocked and scared at first, but the general consensus was that mistakenly there was vitamin E acetate ending up in THC vapes which was killing people.

醫生一開始感到震驚和害怕，但普遍的共識是，THC 電子煙中錯誤地添加了維生素 E 醋酸酯，從而導致了死亡。

It created a disease called E-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury aka EVALI.

它創造了一種稱為電子煙或電子煙使用相關肺損傷（又稱 EVALI）的疾病。

Now, the hope is that there obviously isn't vitamin E acetate THC vapes anymore.

現在，希望顯然不再有維生素 E 醋酸酯 THC 電子煙了。

But again, EVALI, the disease was never caused by nicotine vapes.

但同樣，EVALI 這種疾病從來都不是由尼古丁電子煙引起的。

But that doesn't mean there isn't other wild chemicals in these vapes because of the flavoring.

但這並不意味著這些電子煙中沒有其他野生化學物質，因為味道的關係。

The concept of vaping was designed to be tasteless and ugly as a mechanism to help people quit cigarettes.

電子煙的概念被設計為無味且醜陋，作為一種幫助人們戒菸的機制。

But capitalism came a calling and to expand the vaping market, companies started adding flavorings to make people want to consume vapes more.

但資本主義的召喚來了，為了擴大電子煙市場，公司開始添加味道，讓人們想要更多消費電子煙。

Cinnamaldehyde, the artificial flavoring that creates cinnamon flavor in food is now added to vapes to give them a cinnamony taste.

肉桂醛是一種在食物中產生肉桂味的人造香料，現在被添加到電子煙中，使其具有肉桂​​味。

But cinnamaldehyde also has been found to make the cilia in your lungs stop working, making it harder for your lungs to get rid of debris and expel pathogens, leaving you more vulnerable to lung infection.

但肉桂醛也被發現會使肺部的纖毛停止運作，使肺部更難清除碎片和排出病原體，更容易受到肺部感染。

2,5-dimethylpyrazine is added to vapes to make them chocolatey and isoamyl acetate is added to create a banana taste.

在電子煙中添加 2,5-二甲基吡嗪，使其具有巧克力味，並添加乙酸異戊酯，以產生香蕉味。

These chemicals have been found to cause proinflammatory effects on the respiratory tract that lead to cancer.

研究發現，這些化學物質會對呼吸道產生促炎作用，從而導致癌症。

A recent study found vape smoke contains benzene and other volatile organic compounds which lead to chronic respiratory conditions.

最近的一項研究發現，電子煙霧中含有苯和其他揮發性有機化合物，會導致慢性呼吸道疾病。

Also, the vaping coils have manganese and zinc in them which you end up inhaling and this causes airway epithelial injury and tissue hypoxia.

此外，電子煙的線圈中含有錳和鋅，你最終會吸入這些物質，從而導致氣道上皮損傷和組織缺氧。

Mice chronically exposed to vape aerosols developed lung changes consistent to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease aka COPD, the disease that kills 100,000 Americans a year from smoking.

長期接觸電子煙氣霧劑的小鼠會出現與慢性阻塞性肺病（又稱慢性阻塞性肺病）一致的肺部變化，這種疾病每年導致 10 萬美國人因吸煙而死亡。

But in the end, scientists and physicians agree that cigarettes are still worse than vapes.

但最終，科學家和醫生一致認為，香菸仍然比電子煙更糟。

Cigarettes involve a combustion reaction with tobacco that causes you to inhale tar and other chemicals that ravage the lungs in unbelievable ways.

香菸會與菸草發生燃燒反應，導致你吸入焦油和其他化學物質，從而以令人難以置信的方式破壞肺部。

One lung researcher compared smoking cigarettes to putting your mouth over a car exhaust pipe and inhaling.

一位肺部研究人員把吸菸比作把嘴放在汽車排氣管上吸氣。

Also, you may not know this but 1.3 billion people in the world currently smoke cigarettes.

另外，你可能不知道，目前全世界有 13 億人吸菸。

This is why cigarettes are killing millions of people a year.

這就是香菸每年導致數百萬人死亡的原因。

Whereas right now vaping is mostly relegated to Europe, the US and China.

而現在，抽電子煙主要集中在歐洲、美國和中國。

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried because more than ever young people are vaping who have never even smoked cigarettes.

但這並不意味著我們不應該擔心，因為現在比以往任何時候都有更多從未吸過煙的年輕人在吸食電子煙。

And we do know that there are chemicals in these vapes that can kill you.

我們也知道，這些煙霧中的化學物質會致命。

And even though right now they might not be considered worse than cigarettes, there's still a lot we have to learn because these are a new concept.

儘管現在它們可能不會被認為比香菸更糟糕，但我們仍然需要學習很多東西，因為它們是一個新概念。

Scientists will continue to study how vaping affects people's lungs, especially young people's lungs.

科學家們將繼續研究吸食電子煙如何影響人們的肺部，尤其是年輕人的肺部。

So, if you want more information about vaping, you can click our podcast here.

所以如果你想了解更多關於吸菸的資訊，可以觀看我們的播客。

Thanks for watching our video about the insane way that humans have become addicted to getting nicotine into their lungs.

感謝觀看我們的影片，瞭解人類是如何瘋狂地沉迷於將尼古丁吸入肺部的。