Vape is in vogue in Quebec and not only among those who wish to quit.
More and more minors are vaping when they have never smoked. They are addicting themselves and some parents condone ignoring the fact that there may be nicotine in the liquid to inhale.
This new trend is of concern to social workers who work with adolescents. In addition, many of them make the liquid in their electronic cigarette themselves. " This is a concern parents should have too“, Underlines the preventionist in dependency of the Rives-du-Saguenay school board, Tommy Duchesne.
«Parents should be wondering how young people get access to these apparently safe homemade oil recipes. We don't even know if industrial products are safe, so how do we know if what we make ourselves is good.»
Illegal substances in the e-cigarette?
Some young people would even go so far as to use their electronic cigarettes to hide their consumption of illicit substances.
«I saw a couple of young people in the schoolyard doing it, a 16-year-old teenager he met near a high school told TVA Nouvelles. They take their substance and put it with the liquid from the electronic cigarette to soak up the substance and then they inhale it.»
The phenomenon is also said to be very widespread in the United States. A recent study in Connecticut, a state where cannabis use is permitted for therapeutic purposes, demonstrated that one in five high school students indulge in this practice of filling the tank of their electronic cigarette with cannabis oil.
Even if young people claim to have witnessed such practices near a schoolyard, preventionist Tommy Duchesne claims to have never been confronted with this phenomenon. "In my practice, I have never seen in my young people a practice that combined vaping and THCHe says.
Source : newspaperdequebec.com
