The lack of proper research by Health Canada has left two very opposing views on the safety of e-cigarettes.
While vapes have been sold for the past six years, one thing continues to be absent – research.

Health Canada continues to tell the public e-cigarettes are dangerous without sufficient studies to back up their claims. Provincial legislation and laws have either banned the use of nicotine in e-cigarettes, deterred users from using them on the street and raised the acceptable purchasing age.

Citzens and vendors across the country continue to sell vape products while ignorant of the menial unenforced laws that have been set in place. People continue to use the products, with numbers growing each year.

In the midst of all the confusion, Health Canada has stayed fairly quiet, only releasing a statement saying e-cigarettes have not been tested for safety as well as a statement saying some ingredients could include cancer-causing chemicals such as propylene glycol.

Propylene glycol can be found in a number of food items and beverages, not simply e-cigarettes, though Health Canada has opted to portray it as a cancerous causing product if consumed in high doses on the e-cigarette information on its website.

Health Canada admits only a few small studies have been done on e-cigarettes.  A statement on myhealth.alberta.ca states: “Health Canada advises not to use e-cigarettes because they haven’t been tested and may be harmful.”

So where is the testing? Why has it not been done?

For an organization that has spent millions, if not billions putting a full-fledged effort in anti-tobacco lobbying campaigns, it only seems natural they undertake proper measures to thoroughly test the product in a chance it could save the lives of millions of smokers.  It has left some skeptics questioning whether or not there truly is a tie between the tobacco company and health industry at the upper echelons of corporate politics, where the concern of losing money is valued above the health of a population.

A growing number of both younger and older generations have entered the vaping world and whether or not it is healthier then a cigarette, vaping has become profitable and mainstream.

Thousands have used it as a tool to quit smoking, while others have gone as far as to say it has even saved their lives.

Why not have the unanswered questions solved, once and for all?