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WHAT ABOUT E-Cigarettes

WHAT ABOUT E-Cigarettes. AND VAPING?. Have you heard of vaping?. What do you know? What are you seeing? Where are you getting your information?. What is vaping?.

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WHAT ABOUT E-Cigarettes

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  1. WHAT ABOUTE-Cigarettes AND VAPING?

  2. Have you heard of vaping? • What do you know? • What are you seeing? • Where are you getting your information?

  3. What is vaping? E-cigarettes/vapes use a battery to heat up liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavourings, and other additives. Heating this creates an aerosol (this is what people call “vapour”). Users inhale this aerosol into their lungs.

  4. Health risks • Brain development • Aerosol • Addiction • Link to tobacco

  5. Brain development • Youth and young adults are more at risk than adults for the long-term, long-lasting effects of nicotine. These risks include nicotine addiction, mood disorders, and having a harder time controlling your impulses. • Nicotine also changes the way connections in the brain are formed, and can make it harder to pay attention and learn. • Note: Even liquids that say “no nicotine” sometimes have nicotine in them!

  6. Aerosol • The aerosol from vaping is not harmless. It can contain harmful chemicals, nicotine and heavy metals. This is true even for nicotine-free liquids. • Scientists are still trying to understand the long-term risk of e-cigarettes. The products are fairly new, so we can’t know yet!

  7. Addiction • Until about age 25, the brain is still growing. • Young people’s brains learn more quickly than adult brains. • Because addiction is basically your brain learning to use a substance, adolescents can get addicted more easily than adults. • The nicotine in e-cigarettes can also prepare the adolescent brain for addiction to other drugs.

  8. Link to tobacco • Cigarettes are the leading cause of preventable death and illness in Canada. • Some studies show you are more likely to try cigarettes if you vape. • Many people who smoke also vape, which increases the health risks from both products.

  9. Was this information different than what you have heard before? Why do you think this is?

  10. Finding reliable information Where do you go for your information? What is “reliable”?

  11. Vaping Advertising

  12. Look familiar?

  13. Vaping and “Big Tobacco” Did you know that many vape companies are actually owned by tobacco companies?

  14. How would vaping affect you and your goals? • Risks: • Health • Brain development • Link to tobacco • Addiction • Cost: vaping is expensive Activity: How would these impact your life goals?

  15. Is vaping safer than smoking? Because vape liquids have fewer chemicals, we THINK they are safer. The key word is think. We cannot know for sure because they are such new products. Even if they are safer, this doesn’t mean they are SAFE. It just means that because tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in Canada, many things are safer.

  16. What do you know now? Did you find out anything new? Do you feel differently about vaping now? Be honest.

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