O'Loughlin, Jennifer L and Gagné, Thierry (2022) Editorial – Towards a Canadian evidence base to inform action to prevent and control vaping in Canada. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 42, (1), https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.42.1.01.
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The upsurge in the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the past decade is a critical issue for tobacco control, characterized by rapidly changing ENDS technologies, shifting usage patterns and contradictory evidence on the added value of vaping products... There is now solid international and homegrown evidence that vulnerability to ENDS uptake in youth is similar to, if not higher than, that of tobacco uptake, and this has serious implications for population health in Canada. Three directions for action emerge from this set of papers. First, we can optimally protect young people by applying the set of stringent and comprehensive demand-side measures that have helped reduce tobacco initiation. Second, because Canada’s ENDS market is difficult to monitor, assess and regulate, measures to bring supply under better public health management need to be prioritized. The option of limiting ENDS products to a therapeutic supply (for quitting or harm reduction) should be further explored. Third, much more evidence is needed on the short- and long-term consequences of using ENDS, a knowledge gap that can only be addressed if there is sustained support for surveillance and longitudinal research. We hope that Canada’s health authorities recognize the important contribution of the five papers presented herein and use the findings to strengthen their policy and programmatic approaches to addressing the enduring public health challenge of nicotine addiction.
Special issue: Tobacco control and Canada’s endgame, part II
Original quantitative research
- Nicotine content, labelling and flavours of e-liquids in Canada in 2020: a scan of the online retail market
Kimberly D’Mello, David Hammond, Syed Mahamad, Danielle Wiggers, Katherine East - Predictors of pod-type e-cigarette device use among Canadian youth and young adults
Safa Ahmad, Tianru Wang, Robert Schwartz, Susan J. Bondy - A machine learning approach to predict e-cigarette use and dependence among Ontario youth
Jiamin Shi, Rui Fu, Hayley Hamilton, Michael Chaiton - A cost-utility analysis of the impact of electronic nicotine delivery systems on health care costs and outcomes in Canada
Catherine M. Pound, Doug Coyle
Original qualitative research
- Vaping-associated lung illness (VALI) in Canada: a descriptive analysis of VALI cases reported from September 2019 to December 2020
Melissa M. Baker, Theresa D. Procter, Lisa Belzak, Susanna Ogunnaike-Cooke
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care economics
MM-MO Crime and law > Substance use laws > Tobacco / cigarette laws
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use
T Demographic characteristics > Adolescent / youth (teenager / young person)
T Demographic characteristics > Young adult
VA Geographic area > Canada
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