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E-Cigarettes - Coggle Diagram
E-Cigarettes
Social
Reduce advertisements for vaping/e-cigarettes
Introduce labeling like cigarette packs with graphic images of outcomes
Fine advertisers
Reduce people over 18 buying vaping products for minors
Applying higher fines
Vaping is not permitted indoors by the The Non-smokers' Health Act (NSHA)
Vaping sale enforcement in all communities
Increasing monitoring in high risk areas
Better education programs to teach about effects of nicotine
More of a focus in school
Provide public health services
Promote smoking cessation programs instead of switching to vaping
Economic
Leads to more hospital visits for respiratory issues increasing healthcare costs
Puts unnecessary strain on hospitals
Need for medications to help with breathing issues
Increased expense
Enforcement of regulations for vaping
Paying workers to enforce rules
Legal costs for holding people responsible
Fines to retailers for selling products to minors
Individual
Reduce levels of nicotine to make e-cigarettes less addictive
Introducing standards for reduction
Vaping can lead to cigarette smoking
If people can't get the same level of nicotine as cigarettes, they will start smoking cigarettes
Vaping liquids without nicotine are still dangerous
Try to reduce access people under 18 have to vaping/smoking
Fining people who provide products to minors
Scientific
Reports of respiratory illness
Painful long term chronic conditions
Can cause "popcorn lung" form inhaling Diacetyl, a flavour additive
Children become dependent on nicotine with lower doses than adults
Life long addiction
Issues with impulse control
Political
Introducing secret shoppers to ensure compliance for retailers
Discontinuing licenses to sell tobacco products
Ensures compliance through fear of fines
The Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA) helps to limit who can buy vape products
Have policy as a living document that can be amended and updated using policy layering
Standards for all provinces the same for legal ages and nicotine levels available
May reduce associated health care costs if all provinces have same standard