JUNE 6, 2016 CONESTOGA HIGH SCHOOL BERWYN, PENNSYLVANIA WWW.SPOKE.NEWS VOLUME 66 NO. 7
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ausing to think, co-store manager of Atlantic Vapor Brendan Boyle exhales a thick cloud of vapor, hiding his face from sight. “We started as a way for people to get off of a really deadly habit,” Boyle says. He pauses again to take another inhale from the vaporizer. Glancing around at the cus-
tomers browsing through the various nicotine products in the shop, he continues to tinker with the vaporizer. Boyle has been clean from smoking cigarettes for eight months. “If having crazy flavors and things like that gets you to not suck down a stick of tar, then I can’t see much harm in that,” Boyle says. Vaping is the inhalation of
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any substance that is superheated into a cloud of vapor. The liquid comes in different flavors and is commonly composed of a mixture of water, flavoring, often nicotine and two naturally derived chemicals: vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol. Due to the reusable nature of vaporizers, users need to buy “juice” to refill their device once it has
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been depleted. This juice is rated by how much nicotine it contains on a scale of zero to 24 milligrams. For senior Christopher Bone, his introduction to vaping came about differently from Boyle’s. Having also tried cigarettes, he feels that vaping without nicotine is the much better alternative. “I wanted to look to ways
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that I could utilize (being 18) without being as harmful to myself,” Bone said. “To the kids who want to pick up something like that because they want to seem cool or something, don’t put so much harm on yourself by trying cigarettes.”
See pages 6 and 7. Photo Illustration by Adam Lockett
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