Unfortunately, its not a safe alternative
Here in Canada, you can purchase tobacco products like cigarettes at Native Smokes 4 Less
Restricted Products also include any component, part, accessory, instrument or paraphernalia designed for the smoking ingestion, or inhalation of Restricted Products (such as cigarette papers or wrappers, blunt wraps, pipes, holders of smoking materials of all types and cigarette rolling machines.) No person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute, or import any product commonly referred to, or marketed, as "bidis" or "beedies," unless that product is sold, offered for sale, or intended to be sold in a business establishment that prohibits the presence of persons under 21 years of age on its premises
Carcinogens, like formaldehyde, glycerol, vitamin E acetate, which can cause harm when inhaled. What are the health effects of vaping
Imaging of Vaping-Associated Lung Disease: NEJM. New England Journal of Medicine, 6 Sept