B.C’s NDP government has introduced a law aimed at holding manufacturers and wholesalers accountable for deceptive marketing practices and health impacts from vaping.

Here’s some information on the rise of vaping, the creation of new products like nicotine pouches you suck on and who is taking up vaping in B.C.:

Vaping uses an electronic device to convert liquid containing the drug nicotine into vapour that is then inhaled. Legal vaping liquid can’t contain more than 20 milligrams/millilitres of nicotine.

The federal government’s 2022 Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey shows that 13 per cent of youth in Canada had vaped in the previous 30 days. In B.C., vaping rates are higher, with 16 per cent of youth aged 15 to 19 having vaped in the past 30 days.

A person must be 19 or older to

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