Importance of Project/Issue: 

Understanding the importance of how e-cigarettes impact on an adults’ body helps us better 
understand the impact it has on a youths’ body. E-cigarettes causes impacts physically, 
emotionally, and mentally pertaining to their growth. The concept of youths using e-cigarettes 
are all for the wrong reasons, but that still does not give the okay and the logics of using ecigarettes being safe to use. Due to the high increase of e-cigarette use, youths and adults do 
not understand the long-term consequences of using. Due to the continuing of development on an adolescent’s brain until they are 25 years old, Adolescent nicotine use can harm parts of the 
developing brain that assists with attention, learning, mood, and impulse control. Without the 
proper knowledge, education, and awareness; youths and adolescents are putting their 
development and health in harm’s way all because e-cigarettes are the new trend and because 
it is easy access. 

Skills, competencies &/or capacities learned: 

• Research and apply knowledge of diverse populations to enhance client well-being.
• Use practice experience and knowledge of the research literature to critically analyze 
  the strengths and limitations of various direct practice interventions.
• Develop intervention plans to accomplish systemic changes.
• Use research evaluation of the process and/or outcomes to develop best practice 
  interventions for a range of bio-psycho-social-spiritual conditions.