Bad information, fear mongering, negativity, and shaming… What has become of our beloved industry and those so positively affected by vaping?
Please watch and share. Thank you Aaron Biebert and all those involved.
It’s up to each of us to stop writing each other’s endings, regardless of the topic. Listen before talking, and be proud of our friends, family, and neighbors who quit smoking. Give them hugs, not weird looks. Help them write exciting new chapters, not cling to outdated, stigmatizing endings.
Listen to them when they speak.
C’est à chacun de nous d’arrêter d’écrire les fins de chacun, quel que soit le sujet. Écoutez avant de parler et soyez fiers de nos amis, de notre famille et de nos voisins qui ont arrêté de fumer. Faites-leur des câlins, ne les regardez pas bizarrement. Aidez-les à écrire de nouveaux chapitres passionnants, sans vous accrocher à des fins obsolètes et stigmatisantes.
Écoutez-les quand ils parlent.
Sous-titré en français et anglais.
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Statement from Health Canada: “If you are a smoker, quitting smoking is the best thing you can do to improve your health. There is support available to help you quit. Completely replacing cigarette smoking with vaping will reduce your exposure to harmful chemicals.”
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canad…
“Si vous êtes fumeur: Cesser de fumer est la meilleure chose que vous puissiez faire pour améliorer votre santé. Du soutien vous est offert pour vous aider à cesser de fumer. Remplacer complètement vos cigarettes par un produit de vapotage réduira votre exposition aux produits chimiques nocifs.”
https://www.canada.ca/fr/sante-canada…
Further reading:
New England Journal of Medicine “E-cigarettes were more effective for smoking cessation than nicotine-replacement therapy, when both products were accompanied by behavioral support.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056…
The Royal College of Physicians “The hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.”
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/…
Public Health England “Only one in three adults in England knows that vaping is far less harmful than smoking. Yet in 2018 the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) found that the available evidence suggests e-cigarettes are “far less harmful” than conventional smoking.”
Public Health England’s 2015 independent evidence report, concluded that: “While vaping may not be 100% safe, most of the chemicals causing smoking-related disease are absent and the chemicals which are present pose limited danger.”
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov….
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