In Canada, in the space of a year, the number of young people aged 16 to 19 who vape has increased by 74%. The Canadian Cancer Society therefore calls on provincial governments to raise the legal age for using electronic cigarettes to 21 years.
AN EXPLOSION OF VAPOTAGE IN YOUNG PEOPLE IN A LITTLE TIME!
According to the University of Waterloo study, published in the British Medical Journal, The vaping rate among youth aged 16 to 19 increased from 8,4% to 14,6% between August and September 2017, and the same period in 2018.
Senior policy analyst at the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) Rob Cunningham is very concerned. The risk, he says, is that the nicotine addiction from vaping products leads to smoking. Moreover, the number of young people who smoke cigarettes has also increased by 45% during the same period.
La Canadian Cancer Society calls on the provinces to limit the sale of flavored vaping liquids to specialty stores and to increase the legal age to 21, to limit access. For Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Cancer Society ” If you're 16 or 17, it's easy to get a 19-year-old brother, sister or friend to buy e-cigarettes, but if it's 21 [years] it's much more difficult. "
The CCS also calls on the federal government to limit advertising on vaping, to make it as obscure as that surrounding cannabis.
No Canadian province has adopted this change. Former British Columbia health minister Terry Lake mentioned it in 2017, but the bill was never introduced, and it is not in the crosshairs of the current government.
Source : Ici.radio-canada.ca/
