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IS VAPING
DANGEROUS?

IS VAPING
DANGEROUS?

WEAKENED FROM THE INSIDE

Vaping can damage your body’s natural ability to defend itself. Move the slider to see more.

Look at healthy lungs and you’ll see a layer of normal fat and immune cells. These cells help prevent viruses and bacteria from getting to the air sacs.

GETTING REAL ABOUT VAPING

Vape companies spent millions on advertising and influencers, but were never upfront about the health effects from vaping. Scroll to uncover the truth.

Selling Sickness

Every day we learn about new ways that vaping can be harmful to our bodies. Studies have found cancer-causing chemicals in vape juice, like pulegone, AND vapor, like formaldehyde.

Inhale At Your Own Risk

Whether you vape THC or nicotine, it doesn’t matter. There’s no such thing as a safe vape. ALL have been associated with serious health risks.

Vaping Hurts Us All

Doctors have seen thousands of vape-related hospitalizations, including severe breathing problems, pneumonia, and over 65 deaths—including a 15-year-old.

Can't Mask the Facts

A recent study of 4,000 13-24 year-olds showed that those who had ever used vapes or e-cigs were 5x MORE likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than non-vapers. Learn more about COVID and vaping here.

Unapproved Claims

Now, vape companies even advertise vapes as “quit tools.” Unlike nicotine replacement therapies, like patches or gum, vapes have never been approved as a quit tool by the FDA.

HOW VAPES AFFECT OUR ‘ĀINA

Vapes are hurting Hawaiʻi in more ways than one. Move the slider to see how vaping impacts our environment.

Disposable vapes and pods are on the rise, and that trash is adding up fast. Empty pods, dead batteries, packaging… they’re more dangerous than they seem.