Young Adults Vaping Can Risk Them Getting COVID

 Benjamin Bourgeois

Professor Sylvester 

MC 4971 

Sept. 23, 2020

    Vaping may cause a positive COVID 19 test in young adults in America because they truly have no idea the damage they are causing to their lungs. Young adults in high school and college have this notion that they are young and the virus is incapable of causing them any harm at all.

    The Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a survey that consisted of 4,351 people spanning from the ages of 13 to 24 who all live in the United States. The results were separated based on age, sex, LGTBQ status, race, and body mass index. The people who both vaped and smoked were 6.8 times more likely to experience COVID 19 symptoms. Coughing, fever, tiredness, and difficulty breathing, are the reasons they continue to receive COVID 19 tests.

    The survey overall showed vaping and smoking tobacco products causes people to experience COVID 19 like symptoms. The users of both are always experiencing difficulties such as wheezing and coughing when in reality they are weakening their immune system using vapes and increasing their chances of getting COVID.

    This survey indicates why both vaping and smoking cigarettes at the same time can damage young adults lungs. Thus, if they were to contract COVID the severity of their health would increase. Teens must refrain from vaping unless they want to continue to damage their lungs causing a worse case of COVID if contracted. 

SOURCE:

"Vaping Linked to COVID-19 Risk in Teens and Young Adults." Center for Tobacco Control Research                  Control Research and Education, 11 Aug. 2020, tobacco.ucsf.edu/vaping-linked-covid-19-risk-                  covid-19-risk-teens-and-young-adults