DON’T TREAT YOUR HEALTH LIKE AN EXPERIMENT

Vaping can include nicotine or cannabis.
Both can harm the brain, lungs, and affect mental health.

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QUICK FACTS

Vaping can negatively affect mental health.

Vapes can contain high levels of nicotine and cannabis, increasing the risk of addiction.

Youth are targeted with candy and fruit-flavoured e-liquid. Don’t be tricked.

Vapes can create toxic waste that harms the environment.

Whether someone is vaping nicotine or cannabis, there is support available to help youth reduce or quit.

WHAT ARE VAPES?

They come in many shapes and sizes from box-like devices with mouthpieces to smaller pens.

THE PROCESS

The substance is heated into an aerosol and inhaled.
The chemical particles quickly enter the bloodstream and circulate throughout the body, including the brain.
Any remaining aerosol is exhaled.

The Industry

Designed to Keep You Hooked

Cigarette smoking rates in Canada are at their lowest point in 20 years, great news for everyone except the tobacco industry.
The industry needed to reinvent itself and vapes were their solution.

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The industry spends billions of dollars each year marketing it’s products.

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The tobacco industry has a well-documented history of lying about the addictiveness and health effects of its products.

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The industry needed to reinvent itself and vapes were their solution.

They are using the same marketing tactics

flavours

Influencer endorsements

lifestyle advertising

packaging

They are using the same marketing tactics—like flavours, influencer endorsements, lifestyle advertising, and packaging—that were successful in addicting generations of people to commercial tobacco products. These tactics are designed to addict a whole new generation to nicotine.

The influence of tobacco companies now extends beyond nicotine products.

Major tobacco corporations have invested heavily in cannabis companies whose vape products are sold in Canada, including through the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS). They are involved in the sale of cannabis vape products and related technologies. This raises concern that the same industry that profited from nicotine addiction is now positioning itself within the growing cannabis vape market.

IS IT SAFE?

E-cigarettes, e-liquid and cartridges/pods in Canada are controlled by federal and provincial restrictions to help people understand the risks and make informed choices.
In Ontario, all vaping products (nicotine or cannabis) must have clear labels. Packaging must show health warnings and identify the product and its strength/concentration.

For example, as of July 2020, the labels of all vaping products must include:

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list of ingredients

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Standard health warning

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Standard nicotine statement

WARNING

Vaping products release chemicals that harm your health.

TAKE ACTION

Learn more about the health effects of vaping and spread the word. Discuss vaping related problems. Visit the nicotine and cannabis page to learn more about the health effects of vaping.

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