Health Canada released a report noting that nearly half of the approximately 300,000 Canadians who successfully quit smoking in 2024 did so using nicotine replacement products.
Why can't these self-righteous government types just mind their own business. Anything to screw the general publiuc out of their freedom. And they do tyhis with their hands in their suspenders mode.
These women should go home and take care of their delinquent children.
Go spend yoyr energy at the Parent - Teacher's meetings.
This article says smoking and vaping are down and vaping is 95% less harmful, so MLA mind your own business. Maybe you should check how much alcohol and drugs that youth are taking.
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
Do you remember Dr. Theresa Tam, the former Chief Pubic Health Officer of Canada? Why did she become such a pusher of the jab$ during the plan-demic? She's a proponent of not allowing Ivermectin, which would've saved millions of lives, prevented vaccine injuries by the millions .. was it the million$? How these folks sleep at night amazes me. Oh yes, they're Big Pharma fans.
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data??? Maybe you're too young to remember the ads with doctors smoking to promote cigarettes? They weren't aware of the effects back then, until people started getting sick.
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Follow the money.
CHAT GPT over a prestigious and renowned institution such as Hopkins, seriously? You do realize that AI scrapes information from google, whose search results are biased, right? You might want to try asking the same question to other AI models and see if the answers you get are consistent. AI should never replace critical thinking.
My 3 children just went through the high school system and kids are getting completely strung-out on the high nicotine vape products.
It's really, really bad.
Most deveope disregulated eating habits/disorders because they vape all the time (to the point of perpetual nicotine poisoning) and food makes them throw up. It is actually way more harmful than the health officials are letting on (follow the $$).
We do know how important nutrition is to proper hormone regulation and brain development / cognitive function.
They are not studying those kinds of effects (long or short term). Why would they when they already proved it is safe... That would just damage the whole industry. They are however pretending that everyone who now vapes has successfully quit smoking -when they have only shifted their method of reliance on nicotine.
People are consuming more nicotine. Children are consuming WAY more nicotine! These campaigns and studies are funded by Rothmans/Benson &Hedges. ($$$)
Why can you still not purchase menthol cigarettes (outlawed based on the argument that flavored tobacco is deliberately attractive to children) and yet flavoured vapes are somehow celebrated as healthy? ($$$)
Personally I think this bill is just a redirect from other concerning things. However I totally disagree that vaping id 95%safer than smoking! Both tobacco and vape products are fill ed with chemicals! Instead of banning stuff how about you go after the tobacco companies and those making vaping products and force both to REMOVE THE CHEMICAL AGENTS FOUND IN THESE PRODUCTS! Tobacco is not the issue but all the chemical additives are! I would hazard a guess the same goes for vaping products. Probably full of unnecessary dangerous chemicals!
Cigarettes have 7,000 toxic chemicals, vaping does not. I think it's a mistake banning flavors and leaving tobacco available, making youth going for Cigarettes instead. Just a previous smokers experience.
You might want to look into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
Exactly! Those safe and effective covid shots shed all over me for two weeks and two years later I went into cardiac arrest with both lungs full if blood clots. Yup effective if you wanted to eliminate a chunk of the population!
Neither is good because it is not just the toxins but the taking in if smoke into your lungs! How can that be good for anyone! Fire fighters die from this! My friend did!
Hmmm! She is not very bright, so wonder why she is doing this?? Could it be cigarette lobbyists needing a patsy to take out the vape competition?? It's always about money!!
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
I wouldn't be surprised if Big Tobacco was behind vaping, just as they turned their focus to processed foods once tobacco sales dropped. They always have their finger in the pie! Their main focus is making whatever they push as addictive as possible.
I don't think vaping is good. I know cigarettes are not. What I am tired of is politicians saying something is bad and they put the price up, and govt gets more money(taxes)! "Children" should not have access to vape fluid, but just like alcohol and cigarettes in the past, adults are buying for them. But now, cigarette lobbyists are trying to make it so expensive to vape, that they hope people go back to smoking??? If there is money, and there are politicians, there will be corruption.
Last week, United Conservative Party MLA Chelsae Petrovic introduced Bill 208, the Vaping Reduction Act.
Bill 208 is a Private Members' Bill, which means it doesn't necessarily have the government's support, so it's unclear whether the Bill will become law or not.
Still, we have some concerns about the Bill.
Current laws already restrict sales to adults and limit use in public spaces, but this bill would expand these restrictions even further.
To explain some of the problems with the Bill's approach, we asked our friend David Clement from the Consumer Choice Center to write a guest opinion piece for us.
Take a read, and then reply to this email and let us know your thoughts and whether you support the Bill or not!
- The Alberta Institute Team
Proposed Flavour Ban Is Bad Medicine
By David Clement
Alberta has long prided itself on being a province that trusts adults to make their own decisions. That instinct is now being tested by Bill 208, the Vaping Reduction Act, a private member's bill introduced by UCP MLA Chelsae Petrovic that would ban flavoured single-use vaping products in the province. The bill builds on Alberta's existing Tobacco, Smoking and Vaping Reduction Act, and while its intentions may be sound, its likely consequences are not. This is precisely the kind of policy that sounds reasonable in a press release and fails in practice.
The argument for flavour bans is familiar: brightly coloured, fruit-scented vaping products are designed to lure teenagers. The implication is that eliminating mango and cotton candy will protect kids. But this framing ignores the population that relies on flavoured vapes most heavily: adult smokers who have quit cigarettes. Approximately 1.5 million Canadians use vaping products, the majority of them former smokers. Research on consumer purchasing patterns suggests that hundreds of thousands of those users rely on non-tobacco flavours to stay off cigarettes. Take the flavours away, and many of them won't simply shrug and switch to tobacco-flavoured alternatives, they'll go back to smoking.
The evidence on this point is not ambiguous. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics by Yale School of Public Health researcher Abigail Friedman found that after San Francisco's flavour ban was fully implemented in 2019, high school students' odds of smoking conventional cigarettes doubled relative to trends in districts without the ban. The policy intended to reduce youth nicotine use redirected some youth toward a far more dangerous product. The availability of a range of flavours is one of the things that makes electronic cigarettes a more attractive source of nicotine than combustible cigarettes. Eliminate that advantage, and those seeking nicotine have less reason to prefer vaping over smoking.
We don't have to speculate about what happens in Canada. We have data from provinces that went first. Nova Scotia banned flavoured vapes in early 2020. Six months later, retailers reported a 21 percent increase in cigarette sales. In Nova Scotia, over 40 percent of specialty vape stores closed immediately following the flavour ban, and significant illicit trade followed, with tobacco excise collection increasing 13.6 percent in the year after the ban. Alberta's legislators should ask themselves whether they want to replicate those outcomes in their own province.
The black market problem deserves particular attention. Research from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Waterloo found that about one in five vapers said they would plan to quit vaping and smoke cigarettes instead if non-tobacco flavours were banned, while a further 28 percent said they would find a way to get their banned flavours (meaning the black market). When Canadian provinces eliminated flavoured e-cigarettes from convenience stores and gas stations, flavoured vape sales fell by more than 96 percent for menthol products and 99.9 percent for other flavoured varieties. But many vapers returned to traditional cigarettes, the most dangerous way to consume nicotine.
This is the paradox at the heart of flavour bans: they don't eliminate the demand for nicotine, they redirect it. And they redirect it toward the product that kills people. Cigarette smoke contains the carcinogens and combustion byproducts that cause lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Vaping does not eliminate all health risks, but it eliminates those, which is why it is considered to be 95% less harmful.
Proponents of Bill 208 will point to youth vaping rates, and they are right that youth vaping is a legitimate concern, but failing to address the fact that youth vaping is at an all time low. The solution to youth access is not a blunt instrument that strips adults of safer choices. Strict age verification, and enforcement against retailers who sell to minors are targeted approaches that protect young people without pushing adult vapers back to cigarettes.
There is also a meaningful ideological tension here that Albertans should name plainly. A UCP private member's bill banning a legal product used by consenting adults sits awkwardly alongside a governing party that routinely, and correctly, criticizes federal overreach and paternalistic regulation. Alberta's government has invoked the sovereignty of its citizens against federal intrusion in healthcare, natural resources, and constitutional rights. It is a curious place to then turn around and tell adult smokers that the flavoured vaping product helping them stay off cigarettes is no longer permitted.
MLA Petrovic is a former nurse, and her concern for public health is likely genuine. But good intentions are not a substitute for evidence. The evidence, from Yale, from the University of Waterloo, from Nova Scotia's own retail data, from peer-reviewed studies of Canadian provincial bans, points in the same direction: flavour bans push vapers toward cigarettes, feed black markets, and fail to deliver the youth protection they promise. Bill 208 deserves serious scrutiny before it advances further.
Alberta can do better. It can enforce age restrictions more aggressively and invest in cessation programs that recommend vaping as a quit tool. What it should not do is copy a policy that has already shown, in this country, that it makes things worse.
David Clement is the North American Affairs Manager for the Consumer Choice Center. David holds a BA in Political Science and an MA in International Relations from Wilfrid Laurier University. Previously, David was the Research Assistant to the Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights.
So we are relying on the same Health Canada that told us that the C0V!D shots were 'safe and effective? There are other nicotine replacement products that are safer than vaping. People need to do their own research to make an informed decision. Vaping is worse than tobacco and I support this anti-vaping bill.
Vaping coats the lungs with potentially harmful chemicals, causing inflammation, scarring, and cell death that can lead to serious lung diseases. Specific conditions linked to vaping include EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury), popcorn lung (bronchiolitis obliterans), lipoid pneumonia, and an increased risk of collapsed lung (pneumothorax).
Key mechanisms and effects on lung health include:
Inflammatory Injury: Vaping introduces toxic substances like vitamin E acetate, diacetyl, formaldehyde, and acrolein, which trigger significant inflammation and can cause fluid buildup or permanent scarring.
Popcorn Lung: The flavoring chemical diacetyl damages the small airways, leading to bronchiolitis obliterans, a condition with no cure that causes coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
Lipoid Pneumonia: Inhaling oily substances found in e-liquids can cause fatty acids to enter the lungs, sparking an inflammatory response known as lipoid pneumonia.
Collapsed Lung: Vaping is associated with an increased risk of air blisters on the top of the lungs rupturing, particularly in young, tall, thin individuals, leading to a pneumothorax.
Long-Term Risks: While the long-term effects are still being studied due to the relatively recent popularity of vaping, evidence suggests it may lead to asthma, chronic bronchitis, COPD, and potentially lung cancer similar to traditional smoking.
Although the full long-term health consequences are not yet fully known, experts agree that quitting vaping is the most effective step to prevent further damage and allow the lungs to recover.
If it ain't broke don't fix it!!! There is so many other issues to deal with!! How about taking away the provincial carbon tax using this crisis!!-ab is making millions off the backs of taxpayers with the unreasonable price of gas!!! How about stopping the chemtrails! Talk about pollution and killing Albertans!! Don't focus on the few who choose to vape, focus on what is in the air that everyone breathes!! Don't takeaway the freedom to choose!!! Also, can't help but think the cigarette lobbyists got to this under educated MP!!! Money, money, money!!
Well it's hard to sort out in this spider web of political institutions exactly who is doing exactly what , and obviously none of them are mitigating the actions of any of the others ..
Why can't these self-righteous government types just mind their own business. Anything to screw the general publiuc out of their freedom. And they do tyhis with their hands in their suspenders mode.
These women should go home and take care of their delinquent children.
Go spend yoyr energy at the Parent - Teacher's meetings.
Yes ,,, i agree ... Mind your own business and fix what the government is doing with the AHS , Why did they go after Dr Makis ... treasonous bastards
That was College of Physicians & Surgeons that went after Dr Makis. Get your facts straight. TmCPS need to be reeled in
The very same College of P & S that went after the licenses of ethical doctors during the plan-demic. Not too many clear consciences at 80 College St.
I guess you missed all of danielle smith's office mignons involvement. But hey, she's the only honest politician, right? 😆
Guess you missed CPS involvement.
No, but it falls squarely on her desk and what she was told to do: kill cheap cancer cures, a cured patient is a lost customer.
This article says smoking and vaping are down and vaping is 95% less harmful, so MLA mind your own business. Maybe you should check how much alcohol and drugs that youth are taking.
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
I trust my body and it tells me that vaping is much less harmful than smoking. The change is immediate, noticeable, and measurable.
They reposted this story today and the comments are empty. Could you copy this over?
I get why they think this is a good move; keep it away from attracting kids.
BUT this way is silly, even though it's how I like my nic solution. Flavorless.
Easy to get flavors - add in your own flavors.
Vaping is as toxic to health as cigarettes are.
Where is the proof of this? So far the top surgeon general of TO hospital says 95% harm reduction with vaping vs smoking.
Do you remember Dr. Theresa Tam, the former Chief Pubic Health Officer of Canada? Why did she become such a pusher of the jab$ during the plan-demic? She's a proponent of not allowing Ivermectin, which would've saved millions of lives, prevented vaccine injuries by the millions .. was it the million$? How these folks sleep at night amazes me. Oh yes, they're Big Pharma fans.
And highly paid!
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data??? Maybe you're too young to remember the ads with doctors smoking to promote cigarettes? They weren't aware of the effects back then, until people started getting sick.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
CHAT GPT
Actually, vaping doesn't have the toxic chemicals cigarettes do. Why does Health Canada allow all the toxic chemicals?
Same reason they allowed the toxic jab$
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Follow the money.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
I asked CHAT GPT. They're pretty accurate
CHAT GPT over a prestigious and renowned institution such as Hopkins, seriously? You do realize that AI scrapes information from google, whose search results are biased, right? You might want to try asking the same question to other AI models and see if the answers you get are consistent. AI should never replace critical thinking.
So are potato chips . . . pop . . . candy . . . alcohol . . .
It is enough to make me take up smoking!!!!
My 3 children just went through the high school system and kids are getting completely strung-out on the high nicotine vape products.
It's really, really bad.
Most deveope disregulated eating habits/disorders because they vape all the time (to the point of perpetual nicotine poisoning) and food makes them throw up. It is actually way more harmful than the health officials are letting on (follow the $$).
We do know how important nutrition is to proper hormone regulation and brain development / cognitive function.
They are not studying those kinds of effects (long or short term). Why would they when they already proved it is safe... That would just damage the whole industry. They are however pretending that everyone who now vapes has successfully quit smoking -when they have only shifted their method of reliance on nicotine.
People are consuming more nicotine. Children are consuming WAY more nicotine! These campaigns and studies are funded by Rothmans/Benson &Hedges. ($$$)
Why can you still not purchase menthol cigarettes (outlawed based on the argument that flavored tobacco is deliberately attractive to children) and yet flavoured vapes are somehow celebrated as healthy? ($$$)
Personally I think this bill is just a redirect from other concerning things. However I totally disagree that vaping id 95%safer than smoking! Both tobacco and vape products are fill ed with chemicals! Instead of banning stuff how about you go after the tobacco companies and those making vaping products and force both to REMOVE THE CHEMICAL AGENTS FOUND IN THESE PRODUCTS! Tobacco is not the issue but all the chemical additives are! I would hazard a guess the same goes for vaping products. Probably full of unnecessary dangerous chemicals!
Cigarettes have 7,000 toxic chemicals, vaping does not. I think it's a mistake banning flavors and leaving tobacco available, making youth going for Cigarettes instead. Just a previous smokers experience.
You might want to look into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
Exactly! Those safe and effective covid shots shed all over me for two weeks and two years later I went into cardiac arrest with both lungs full if blood clots. Yup effective if you wanted to eliminate a chunk of the population!
Neither is good because it is not just the toxins but the taking in if smoke into your lungs! How can that be good for anyone! Fire fighters die from this! My friend did!
Your argument is literally that we should keep them because it is much more enticing to children..
Good grief, that is NOT what I said, really!
You sound misinformed and authoritarian.
Hmmm! She is not very bright, so wonder why she is doing this?? Could it be cigarette lobbyists needing a patsy to take out the vape competition?? It's always about money!!
You might want to looking into the effects of vaping before relying on the same Health Canada that claimed the C0VID shots were 'safe and effective.' Do you honestly trust their data???
I wouldn't be surprised if Big Tobacco was behind vaping, just as they turned their focus to processed foods once tobacco sales dropped. They always have their finger in the pie! Their main focus is making whatever they push as addictive as possible.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
I don't think vaping is good. I know cigarettes are not. What I am tired of is politicians saying something is bad and they put the price up, and govt gets more money(taxes)! "Children" should not have access to vape fluid, but just like alcohol and cigarettes in the past, adults are buying for them. But now, cigarette lobbyists are trying to make it so expensive to vape, that they hope people go back to smoking??? If there is money, and there are politicians, there will be corruption.
Wanda,
Last week, United Conservative Party MLA Chelsae Petrovic introduced Bill 208, the Vaping Reduction Act.
Bill 208 is a Private Members' Bill, which means it doesn't necessarily have the government's support, so it's unclear whether the Bill will become law or not.
Still, we have some concerns about the Bill.
Current laws already restrict sales to adults and limit use in public spaces, but this bill would expand these restrictions even further.
To explain some of the problems with the Bill's approach, we asked our friend David Clement from the Consumer Choice Center to write a guest opinion piece for us.
Take a read, and then reply to this email and let us know your thoughts and whether you support the Bill or not!
- The Alberta Institute Team
Proposed Flavour Ban Is Bad Medicine
By David Clement
Alberta has long prided itself on being a province that trusts adults to make their own decisions. That instinct is now being tested by Bill 208, the Vaping Reduction Act, a private member's bill introduced by UCP MLA Chelsae Petrovic that would ban flavoured single-use vaping products in the province. The bill builds on Alberta's existing Tobacco, Smoking and Vaping Reduction Act, and while its intentions may be sound, its likely consequences are not. This is precisely the kind of policy that sounds reasonable in a press release and fails in practice.
The argument for flavour bans is familiar: brightly coloured, fruit-scented vaping products are designed to lure teenagers. The implication is that eliminating mango and cotton candy will protect kids. But this framing ignores the population that relies on flavoured vapes most heavily: adult smokers who have quit cigarettes. Approximately 1.5 million Canadians use vaping products, the majority of them former smokers. Research on consumer purchasing patterns suggests that hundreds of thousands of those users rely on non-tobacco flavours to stay off cigarettes. Take the flavours away, and many of them won't simply shrug and switch to tobacco-flavoured alternatives, they'll go back to smoking.
The evidence on this point is not ambiguous. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics by Yale School of Public Health researcher Abigail Friedman found that after San Francisco's flavour ban was fully implemented in 2019, high school students' odds of smoking conventional cigarettes doubled relative to trends in districts without the ban. The policy intended to reduce youth nicotine use redirected some youth toward a far more dangerous product. The availability of a range of flavours is one of the things that makes electronic cigarettes a more attractive source of nicotine than combustible cigarettes. Eliminate that advantage, and those seeking nicotine have less reason to prefer vaping over smoking.
We don't have to speculate about what happens in Canada. We have data from provinces that went first. Nova Scotia banned flavoured vapes in early 2020. Six months later, retailers reported a 21 percent increase in cigarette sales. In Nova Scotia, over 40 percent of specialty vape stores closed immediately following the flavour ban, and significant illicit trade followed, with tobacco excise collection increasing 13.6 percent in the year after the ban. Alberta's legislators should ask themselves whether they want to replicate those outcomes in their own province.
The black market problem deserves particular attention. Research from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Waterloo found that about one in five vapers said they would plan to quit vaping and smoke cigarettes instead if non-tobacco flavours were banned, while a further 28 percent said they would find a way to get their banned flavours (meaning the black market). When Canadian provinces eliminated flavoured e-cigarettes from convenience stores and gas stations, flavoured vape sales fell by more than 96 percent for menthol products and 99.9 percent for other flavoured varieties. But many vapers returned to traditional cigarettes, the most dangerous way to consume nicotine.
This is the paradox at the heart of flavour bans: they don't eliminate the demand for nicotine, they redirect it. And they redirect it toward the product that kills people. Cigarette smoke contains the carcinogens and combustion byproducts that cause lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Vaping does not eliminate all health risks, but it eliminates those, which is why it is considered to be 95% less harmful.
Proponents of Bill 208 will point to youth vaping rates, and they are right that youth vaping is a legitimate concern, but failing to address the fact that youth vaping is at an all time low. The solution to youth access is not a blunt instrument that strips adults of safer choices. Strict age verification, and enforcement against retailers who sell to minors are targeted approaches that protect young people without pushing adult vapers back to cigarettes.
There is also a meaningful ideological tension here that Albertans should name plainly. A UCP private member's bill banning a legal product used by consenting adults sits awkwardly alongside a governing party that routinely, and correctly, criticizes federal overreach and paternalistic regulation. Alberta's government has invoked the sovereignty of its citizens against federal intrusion in healthcare, natural resources, and constitutional rights. It is a curious place to then turn around and tell adult smokers that the flavoured vaping product helping them stay off cigarettes is no longer permitted.
MLA Petrovic is a former nurse, and her concern for public health is likely genuine. But good intentions are not a substitute for evidence. The evidence, from Yale, from the University of Waterloo, from Nova Scotia's own retail data, from peer-reviewed studies of Canadian provincial bans, points in the same direction: flavour bans push vapers toward cigarettes, feed black markets, and fail to deliver the youth protection they promise. Bill 208 deserves serious scrutiny before it advances further.
Alberta can do better. It can enforce age restrictions more aggressively and invest in cessation programs that recommend vaping as a quit tool. What it should not do is copy a policy that has already shown, in this country, that it makes things worse.
David Clement is the North American Affairs Manager for the Consumer Choice Center. David holds a BA in Political Science and an MA in International Relations from Wilfrid Laurier University. Previously, David was the Research Assistant to the Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights.
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So we are relying on the same Health Canada that told us that the C0V!D shots were 'safe and effective? There are other nicotine replacement products that are safer than vaping. People need to do their own research to make an informed decision. Vaping is worse than tobacco and I support this anti-vaping bill.
Vaping coats the lungs with potentially harmful chemicals, causing inflammation, scarring, and cell death that can lead to serious lung diseases. Specific conditions linked to vaping include EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury), popcorn lung (bronchiolitis obliterans), lipoid pneumonia, and an increased risk of collapsed lung (pneumothorax).
Key mechanisms and effects on lung health include:
Inflammatory Injury: Vaping introduces toxic substances like vitamin E acetate, diacetyl, formaldehyde, and acrolein, which trigger significant inflammation and can cause fluid buildup or permanent scarring.
Popcorn Lung: The flavoring chemical diacetyl damages the small airways, leading to bronchiolitis obliterans, a condition with no cure that causes coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
Lipoid Pneumonia: Inhaling oily substances found in e-liquids can cause fatty acids to enter the lungs, sparking an inflammatory response known as lipoid pneumonia.
Collapsed Lung: Vaping is associated with an increased risk of air blisters on the top of the lungs rupturing, particularly in young, tall, thin individuals, leading to a pneumothorax.
Long-Term Risks: While the long-term effects are still being studied due to the relatively recent popularity of vaping, evidence suggests it may lead to asthma, chronic bronchitis, COPD, and potentially lung cancer similar to traditional smoking.
Although the full long-term health consequences are not yet fully known, experts agree that quitting vaping is the most effective step to prevent further damage and allow the lungs to recover.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
I honestly do think there are problems with vaping because peoples can get addicted to this, especially do to the chemicles in the coloured liquids
If it ain't broke don't fix it!!! There is so many other issues to deal with!! How about taking away the provincial carbon tax using this crisis!!-ab is making millions off the backs of taxpayers with the unreasonable price of gas!!! How about stopping the chemtrails! Talk about pollution and killing Albertans!! Don't focus on the few who choose to vape, focus on what is in the air that everyone breathes!! Don't takeaway the freedom to choose!!! Also, can't help but think the cigarette lobbyists got to this under educated MP!!! Money, money, money!!
People forgot what it was like to be a teenager. It was never about the flavour or the high for most. It was about fitting in.
Typical .... raising a finger to them would be a waste of energy. Black market would nullify any of their so called intentions.
Well it's hard to sort out in this spider web of political institutions exactly who is doing exactly what , and obviously none of them are mitigating the actions of any of the others ..