Raspberry Dream. Peachy Keen. Bananarama. Companies are using these fruity flavours to sell vaping to Canadian teens.

It’s working. Teen vaping rates in Canada are among the highest in the world. A 2020-2021 Health Canada survey of 60,000 teens showed that 29 percent of Grade 7 to 12 students have tried vaping at least once. Among Grade 10 to 12 students, the rate was a whopping 41 percent.