Promised Canada-wide ban on vaping flavours increasingly unlikely, health groups warn
Promised Canada-wide ban on vaping flavours increasingly unlikely, health groups warn
Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said she and representatives from a number of anti-smoking organizations met this week with a senior staff member for Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks.
"We left the meeting with the firm belief that we are not going to see a ban on vaping flavours this year," she said. "We are greatly disappointed."
Callard said the official gave a range of logistical reasons for why the restrictions weren't going ahead — including the limited time left to enact them as the Liberal government stares down a potential spring election.
Fuck the flavours, ban single use batteries in every application.
There are some valid uses for replaceable batteries. Fire alarms for example is not something i want to take off the ceiling to recharge every few weeks.
That said, banning single use/non refillable vapes is something i could support.
I mean devices with non-replacable batteries, once the battery fails the entire device must be replaced. Single used then trash.
Fine, don't ban flavours. But for the love of Christ, punish people who litter their vape products, because it's out of control.
For the pods it should be the same as Alchohol containers. Have a deposit payed when they are bought and be able to be returned to get the deposit back. Like if you pay a dollar extra per disposal pod you should be able to return them to a waste facility to get that money back.
There are better ways to vape. There's no need for that disposable plastic shit to exist at all.
Honestly, I am not a big fan of government surveillance, but god damn it taxes smokers and those who vape more.
Vapers like myself who use refillable RTAs/RTDs are already taxed up the ass for juice. I purchase from bargain e juice where a 120 ml bottle is about $25, and provincial/federal excise taxes are around $35. So for a bottle that 10 years ago I could purchase for $15-18, I now pay $60.
Fuck taxing us more.
The stupidity shown by governmental oversight in this battle is beyond compare. Instead of restricting cheap over-the-counter disposable vapes, they approved them -- then restricted more expensive rebuildable tank and drip atomizers that required mod units to operate.
I truly have to wonder how many of those with oversight on the original vape issue had stock options in vaping companies that sell disposable units ... because it seems they ignored common sense for utter ignorance and possible selfishness.
Everything the government does involving vapes is wrong. Regulating 50mg out of existence was stupid. Threatening a flavour ban for YEARS was insanely stupid. Running questionably scientific anti-vaping ads (disclaimer, that one might've been AB-specific, I don't remember) was also stupid, if the goal was ever harm reduction.
And their argument was always that kids are drawn to the colourful packaging. OK, why not make it like cannabis packaging? And then they never even did that, proving that it was all a ruse in the first place. Personally I think it was to aid in big tobacco getting them back on smokes instead.
