With the provincial vape tax coming into effect OCT 1, 2024 some of our customers are asking if it may be cheaper to go back to cigarettes.
Beyond the obvious answer of – don’t do this for your health, I’ll do some number crunching below. You will find that vaping is still quite a bit less expensive than smoking, even after the tax.
I’ll also provide some smart suggestions to make your vape dollars go further.
Assuming a pack a day smoker, cigarettes in Canada average $16.50 per pack. Premium brands can be well over $20 per pack in some provinces, but let’s just take the average $16.50 for comparison.
This works out to $495 every 30 days, or $5940 a year to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day in Canada.
The average customer vapes approximately 5ml of e-liquid per day. Some as little as 2-3ml, and others as high as 8-10ml, but for this article, let’s stick with the average.
A 120ml e-liquid bottle will cost $70. Since we offer free shipping on all orders over $50, you won’t pay a penny for shipping at Canada Vapes. This equates to 24 days of vaping for $70, or $2.92 a day for vaping. Even if you double or even triple your e-liquid use, it is still much much cheaper to vape than smoking (cough) cigarettes.
Adding the price of new supplies (batteries, kits, coils, etc.) that you may use, our average customer spends about $200 per year on these accessories, or about 0.58c per day.
So by comparison, smoking will cost you $16.50 a day, and vaping just $3.47, about 80% less than smoking!
VAPING IS STILL 79% CHEAPER THEN SMOKING!
Tips to stretch out your vape dollars:
Don’t use disposables as your main vape:
I get it – disposables are easy, quick and consistent. But long term, they will cost you much more than using a kit that you fill up with e-liquid yourself. A disposable vape with about 10ml of e-liquid will run you $20-$25, which is about 4-5x more than buying the e-liquid separately, which costs $5.83 for 10ml.
Vaping with Canada Vapes E-liquid and Kits will always be cheaper than pre-filled pods or disposable vapes – a lot cheaper!
We offer e-liquid in FreeBase, Nic Salts and High VG so no matter what your vaping needs are, we have you covered! We have over 100 unique flavors and many nicotine strength options to take advantage of..
Buy your e-liquid in larger bottles.
Bigger bottles save money – 120ml bottles are about 18% savings vs. 60ml bottles, and they often go on sale, so you can save even more.
Lower your vape wattage for longer lasting e-liquid
Coils and pods with higher wattages reduce how much liquid you will use, and will make your e-liquid last much longer. Consider the Smok Nord 5 pod system, kits or the Caliburn G2 kits that work best with our freebase e-liquid (add links)
Keep your eye out for our monthly promotions!
Make sure you are on our mailing list (add link to mailing list) as we regularly discount our e-liquid through monthly promotions.
Check out the Clearance Section – we often have discounted slower selling e-liquids in our clearance section for up to 50% off!
Refer a friend Canada Vapes for a half price bottle of e-liquid!
you may want to change the following: “Coils and pods with higher (wattages) reduce how much liquid you will use,”
Higher wattage uses more juice. Higher (ohm’s) use less juice with lower wattage.