When Lexie found out I was working at Salish Secondary for the election, she asked, "do they have anti vaping posters in the bathroom stalls?". No, they don't but good for her school. She said a lot of kids vape at school.
When Vaping was first introduced it was to help adults "kick the cigarette habit". It worked for some, however, they have a whole new market in our children. It's time our Federal politicians stood up to these companies!
From an article in McLeans:
Soaring teen addiction. Kids on life-support. Weird deaths. Terrifying lung damage. A scramble for data. A criminal investigation. The awful news about vaping just keeps coming.
And all this from the e-cigarettes that, when they were legalized in Canada last year, were pitched as far safer than cigarettes. Instead of inhaling the cancer-causing smoke of burning tobacco, adults would get their nicotine fix by breathing in the aerosol of a flavoured liquid, heated in a stick or pen just enough to become vapour. Vapes were said to be a social good, a powerful tool in the worthy global effort to get people off smoking, and maybe off nicotine, too. What went wrong?
First, the catastrophic health effects of vaping are now becoming frighteningly apparent. Second, it’s become clear that vaping has a devoted, often addicted, youth market.
“For a lot of people, it’s astonishing,” says Elizabeth Saewyc, a professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and research director of B.C.’s most recent adolescent health survey. “I do think we took our eye off things, because it had been billed as, ‘This is a less harmful approach to help people quit smoking.’”
I watched my mom suffer with COPD for many years. She was on 24/7 oxygen and struggled to breathe in her last ten years. In her early life they didn't know the danger of cigarettes. When the dangers were made public, she was too hooked to quit. Many people could but she couldn't. Unfortunately my sister couldn't kick the habit either! Thank heavens none of the rest of the family smokes or vapes.
