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Between 2015 and 2018, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sales of fruit-flavoured e-cigarette cartridges skyrocketed by 600 percent and young people identify flavors as a primary reason they use e-cigarettes

In 2025, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada reported that typical legal prices for a pack of 20 cigarettes vary between $15 in Ontario and Quebec, and up to almost $20 in BC and Newfoundland

Take a recent e-cigarette briefer from the Western Pacific Region (WPR) of the WHO, which combines cherry-picked factoids and misinformation

For instance, a meta-analysis of 28 observational studies involving 13,317 men found that smokers had higher mean total testosterone levels (1.53 nmol/L) compared to non-smokers