Results of Initial Research

• This initial hour uncovered no information pertaining to ethnicities and vaping in general. The government focuses their statistics around age, gender, and region, but not ethnicity. This is most likely due to the fact that age, gender, and region provide a more populous sample, as Asians only make up 15% of the population. Considering that demographics were not located for Asians, it is very improbable that statistics specific to south Asians and Filipinos exist.

Canadian Government- Official Vaping Statistics

• In 2017, 15% (4.6 million) of Canadians aged 15 years and older had ever tried an e-cigarette, an increase from 13% (3.9 million) in 2015.
• Twenty-three percent (23% or 460,000) of youth aged 15 to 19, and 29% (704,000) of young adults aged 20 to 24, had ever tried an e-cigarette, both unchanged from 2015.
•  Thirteen percent (13% or 3.5 million) of adults aged 25 years and older had ever tried an e-cigarette, an increase from 2015 (11%).
•  Nineteen percent (19% or 2.2 million) of males had ever tried an e-cigarette, which was higher than females (12% or 1.8 million).
• This survey goes on to break the statistics down by usage in the last 30 days and types of juices that were used.
• It also discusses why they started and the perceived risks.
• They do not break down usage by ethnicity.

Canadian Cancer Society

• A study by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) focused on use by age, not ethnicity.

Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey, 2019

• This study shares valuable statistics by age and gender, along with reasons for vaping, but nothing by ethnicity. They also offer some vaping by geography statistics.