But for the addicts themselves, it is great news. This may be because governments impose heavy taxes on tobacco products (about $7.3 billion per year in Canada), but haven’t yet geared up to extract similar amounts from the nicotine addicts who have migrated to vapourizers. It’s not primarily the nicotine that harms smokers it’s the tar and other chemical byproducts from burnt tobacco.Īnother pleasant surprise is that e-cigarettes are actually cheaper than tobacco for vapers to get the same nicotine dose. I hate paying taxes to support the huge medical expenses caused by tobacco-related cancers and chronic diseases - some $14 billion in Canada in 2012. Thousands (perhaps millions) of people are doing the same. E-cigarettes had let them wean themselves off tobacco. The vapers I met were former tobacco smokers themselves. Indeed, scientific studies confirm that there is virtually no risk to bystanders from secondhand vapour, unlike secondhand tobacco smoke. Had people been consuming equivalent amounts of tobacco sticks in that space, I wouldn’t have been able to spend two minutes there without starting to cough and gasp for air. All I noticed was a slight, pleasant, fruity aroma in the air when I walked into the shop. Even though two or three people were vaping nearby throughout the meeting, I experienced no discomfort. In fact, I recently spent about 90 minutes in a “vape shop,” meeting with several vaping entrepreneurs. As someone who hates being accosted by sidestream smoke from burning tobacco sticks, I welcome this development. It is now estimated to be a $3.5 billion business worldwide. “We can’t allow something new and unregulated to exist in the marketplace! People might just solve their own problems without us!”įrom its infancy in 2003, the market for e-cigarettes has skyrocketed. Just mention the phrase “electronic cigarettes” and politicians at every level seem to go berserk. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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