A report prepared for Health Canada showed that approximately 6 years after the introduction of pictorial cigarette warnings in Canada, more than 90 percent of Canadian youth agreed that the pictorial cigarette warnings had provided them with important and accurate information about the negative health effects of smoking cigarettes (Ref
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This is a problem for lipids, proteins and nucleic acids (including DNA) all of which are most readily damaged by free radicals leading to a wide range of health problems, including premature ageing and a weakened immune system
It can potentially reduce the therapeutic benefit of the antidepressants or increase the risk of their side effects
It also impairs collagen production, causing wrinkles and loss of skin elasticity
Across our entire sample, current smokers who had never vaped were 2.5 times more likely to say that vaping was equally or more harmful than smoking compared to former smokers who currently vape (80% vs