Vape Tour
Let's Talk Facts - Vape Tour
Take Back Your Voice! It’s time that the discussion around vaping and adults is based on facts, not emotion. The stakes are too high.
ABOUT VAPE TOUR 2022
Between November 16th and 29th, R4V and CDVQ are hitting the road to share the facts about vaping in cities across Ontario and Quebec.
We will be answering any and all questions that adults who smoke may have about vaping. As a bonus, some of our expert friends will be joining us to lend their knowledge.
48,000 Canadians died in 2021 of tobacco-related illnesses.
0 Canadians died of vaping.
Smoking is bad for your health as the toxins produced by burning tobacco cause smoking-related illnesses. The majority of health benefits are seen when you stop smoking completely. Some people find cutting down as a helpful step to quitting, but stopping smoking completely should be the end goal.
What We Believe:
- Vaping can help adults who smoke quit.
- Children or young people should not have access to vaping products
- Regulations should be balanced
- Vaping products are not cigarettes and should not be regulated in the same way
- Vaping saves lives
Fact Check:
Vaping is a much less risky alternative for the five million Canadians who smoke.
Vaping is not harmless, but it is much less harmful than smoking.
Vaping is not a gateway to smoking.
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/30/2/212
Vaping is 95 percent less harmful than smoking.
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction,
Smoking and vaping both deliver nicotine. The difference is cigarettes deliver it by burning tobacco, which creates many harmful toxins. Vaping delivers nicotine in e-liquid, which is a much less harmful way.
While nicotine is addictive, it doesn’t cause cancer.
Vaping is not smoking, but some people find vaping works to help them quit because it offers experiences similar to smoking a cigarette.
Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation, Cochrane Review April 2021
Allowing a sufficient nicotine concentration (+- 35mg/ml) to meet the varied needs of Canadian adult smokers is essential to maximizing their chances of quitting.
Banning flavours could actually be “a threat to public health!”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2780248
Flavour bans are an experimental measure. Very few, if any, jurisdictions in the world can definitely prove its effectiveness.
Vape Bans Are Creating a Thriving Illicit Market, Alex Norcia, 8 july 2020
