MISSED OPPORTUNITY: QUEBEC GOVERNMENT LOSES CHANCE TO BE A PIONEER IN TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION Toronto, ON – April 20, 2023 – Right4Vapers, Canada’s largest vapers’ rights advocacy group, is profoundly disappointed that the Government of Quebec has chosen to dismiss the health of Quebecers who vape and smoke and to succumb to the pressure of […]
Recently Health Canada updated the section of their website that focused on vaping. This update is the latest progressive action by our national public health ministry. In 2018, the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA) became law in Canada. The legislation regulates the manufacture, sale, labeling, and promotion of vaping products sold in Canada. From 2018 until recently, Public
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I am writing in response to Andrew Halayko’s and Andrew Pipes opinion piece that calls for Ontario and Manitoba to take advantage of an opportunity to raise taxes on vaping products. Professor Halayko’s piece presents outdated arguments that do not consider vaping as a powerful tool to reduce the harm caused by smoking. Kids should
QUÉBEC, le 29 nov. 2022 /CNW/ – Les Québécois qui fument demandent au gouvernement Legault de se concentrer sur les problèmes de santé qui préoccupent les Québécois et de ne pas cibler les produits de vapotage aromatisés lors de la prochaine session parlementaire. Les Québécois sont d’accord pour dire que le gouvernement Legault doit se concentrer sur
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my opinions on the TVPA and its regulations as well as its effects on Canadian society. I am a retired from the computer industry and education. I have no affiliations or connections to any industry, except as a customer of various vendors of vaping devices and
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April 13, 2022 Legislative Review Secretariat Tobacco Control Directorate Controlled Substances and Cannabis Branch Health Canada Re: Legislative Review of the Parliamentary Consultation on Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA) The stated goal of Health Canada is to reduce the population prevalence of combustible tobacco use to less than 5% by 2035. This goal is
INTRODUCTION In March 2022, Health Canada opened a review of the vaping-related provisions in Tobacco and Vaping Products Act. This review is mandated every three years and comes at a critical time for vaping in Canada. Since the adoption of the TVPA, vaping regulations in Canada have increased while the understanding of vaping as a
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PRESS RELEASE RIGHTS4VAPERS IS DISAPPOINTED IN JUUL’S DECISION TO ABANDON ADULT VAPERS Toronto, Ontario – April 13, 2021, – Juul Labs Canada has put its bottom line and relationship with the federal government ahead of the needs of its consumers by pulling out of the Vaping Industry Trade Association of Canada (VITA) and abandoning the fight
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WHO SPEAKS FOR SMOKERS? OLDER CANADIANS USE VAPOUR PRODUCTS TO QUIT SMOKING AND ARE MORE LIKELY TO SMOKE Toronto, Ontario – March 17, 2021 – Today the Government of Canada released its 2020 Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey. The results show that while the attention of regulators, politicians and the anti-nicotine activists has been on
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Health Canada Nicotine Cap Regulations Concentration of Nicotine in Vaping Products Regulations Canada Gazette Part I Volume 154 Number 51 A commentary from an Economics perspective March 01, 2021 Ian Irvine 1 1 I am a professor in the Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal. I am grateful to several people in writing this submission. In
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