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MONTREAL GAZETTE | The draw of nicotine: With rise in youth vaping, history repeats itself
Michael Pollak, an oncologist and director of the McGill University-Jewish General Hospital Cancer Prevention Centre, says vaping should be sold by prescription and only to those trying to quit smoking.
“I would expect (vaping) to be less carcinogenic than tobacco. But the flavours, after they have been heated, are there carcinogens in there that might cause trouble five or 10 years later?
“The answer is we don’t know because we haven’t been using it long enough,” Pollak said. “A flavour that might be safe if ingested in your mouth, who knows what it does if it gets heated and complicated biochemistry happens and it makes new compounds and you inhale that to your lungs.”
