Blog #17

This is the essay

The essay I chose is titled “Call this youth crisis what it is: A Juuling epidemic.” In today’s world, especially in high school and college, the “Juul” device is destroying students. A Juul is just like any other e-cigarette that includes aerosol in a from of water vapor. I am being 100% honest, every 9/10 people are involved with juuling, and more than have of them are addicted. I have always been a big activist against juuling, and I see it as a major problem in today’s society. This device was intended to help people who were addicted to cigarettes and wanted to quit. The idea was to use juuling as a supplement, and it would be an easier, slow way to get off of cigarettes. However, do to the flavors that juuling provides to customers, teens think of them as cool, and. it’s a status quo for them when someone has a “new flavor.”

Connecting this with the work we did in class is going to be tough. However, the past way I can think to connect the essays to my essay is to compare arts to ways of stopping Juuling. I’m going to be honest; kids who juul are just plain stupid. It’s not “cool,” and it’s certainly not healthy. I would think of arts, or even STEAM, as a distraction to juuling. Arts can enhance thinking, distracting people, making them think it’s smart to not juul. You could even make the argument that just performing arts themselves can be the replacement of vaping, especially for people who are addicted to cigarettes, and want to stop.

In order to make sure this article is a good source, it must pass the CRAAP test. This stands for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. to start with, this article is very current. It was written on August 19th, 2019, which is just a couple months ago, and this is clearly still an issue in today’s society. It may even be worse than it was a couple months ago. The second is relevance. This essay is very relevant to my argument, and its intended audience is essentially everyone. Students, parents, teachers, doctors; people need to understand this is a major issue in today’s world. The next part is authority, and there is an author listed with this essay. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, the author,  “is a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and founder and executive director of the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, an online curriculum that educates youth about tobacco products.” As for accuracy, this article comes from The Seattle Times, which is just as reliable as The New York Times. It’s a highly referred source, and many are to believe it’s information because of how. much publicity it gets. All the evidence the author uses is cited, or referenced somewhere in the essay. The last is purpose. Halpern-Felsher wants people to know that Juuling are bad. We are letting this major issue go under the table because people don’t really know about it. People are sneaky, and I guarantee you parents don’t even though that there kids Juul. People need to be informed about it so they can take action, and save their kids lungs before it’s too late for them.