Canada: Vape Association Sets Out to Dispel Vaping Myths

Source from:  Vapingpost 12/14/2020

“The Canadian Vaping Association (CVA) is alarmed by the resurgence of articles inaccurately depicting vaping as being as harmful as smoking, as well as linking vaping to increased COVID-19 symptom severity.

As both claims have long been disproven, it is concerning to see a sudden return of misinformation coming out of the United States,” read the opening paragraph of the release.

The association referred to the fact that the UK’s Royal College of Physicians first concluded that vaping is at least 95 percent less harmful than smoking six years ago. Since then this figure has been reconfirmed by countless independent peer reviewed studies, and by Public Health England, which is renowned for having conducted its own research on a regular basis to validate such findings.

“As a result of these and other studies, vaping has been recognized for several years by many major health organizations to be less harmful than smoking.”

Moreover, several studies claiming the opposite were disproved and in a very renowned recent case, even retracted. “Publications stating otherwise are at best uniformed and at worst willfully ignorant. Given that a basic fact check would disprove the claim that vaping poses the same risks as smoking, it is apparent that ulterior motives or personal bias are at play.”