YOUTH VAPING DURING COVID-19: - BC youth’s experiences during the pandemic

the pandemic started than they who had vaped pre-pandemic were to have vaped more or to were more likely to report having Among youth who vaped in the have started vaping during the vaped the last time because they past three months, respondents pandemic. [...] school returned in September percentage of youth who started were more likely to have vaped vaping and who vaped more in Youth who had never vaped were in person with friends than youth the past three months, and a more likely than those who had who completed a survey in June decrease in the percentage who vaped to report trusting vap- or December. [...] 19 YOUTH VAPING DURING COVID-19 Youth who vaped during the pandemic were more likely Youth’s reasons for vaping the last time in relation to than those who had last vaped pre-pandemic to report vaping when they last vaped the last time as an alternative to smoking cigarettes and because Last vaped pre-pandemic Vaped during the pandemic they felt addicted to vaping, as well as for emotional reasons. [...] For example, 17% of youth with friends were more likely to vaped less since the pandemic who had last vaped because they share a vaping device during started than they were to have were stressed or anxious reported the pandemic than youth who vaped more or to have started an increase in their vaping since did not last vape in person with vaping during the pandemic. [...] Youth were more likely to have stopped vaping or to have vaped less since the pandemic started than they were to Among the over 38,000 Grade 7–12 students who filled out the 2018 BC Adolescent Health have vaped more or to have started vaping during the for those looking to reduce or quit Survey, 27% had vaped in the past month.