Tobacco Control Groups to Minister Saks:  Ban Flavours Now or Resign
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Tobacco Control Groups to Minister Saks: Ban Flavours Now or Resign

Ottawa, October 4, 2024 – With the clock running out on this parliament, Canada’s major tobacco control agencies today condemned the continued delay of a national ban on flavours in vaping products. They called on Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks to immediately finalize this important regulation or to step down so that someone else can complete…

Canada’s Health Minister breaks new ground to regulate nicotine pouches
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Canada’s Health Minister breaks new ground to regulate nicotine pouches

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada joined other health agencies and concerned Canadians in applauding the Health Minister for ordering Imperial Tobacco (British American Tobacco) to change the way it markets nicotine pouches in Canada “The measures announced today will put these novel nicotine products where they belong: behind the pharmacist’s counter,” said executive director Cynthia…

World No Tobacco Day 2024: Ministers’ silence on e-cig flavour regulations raises concerns the policy has been scrapped
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World No Tobacco Day 2024: Ministers’ silence on e-cig flavour regulations raises concerns the policy has been scrapped

MONTREAL, OTTAWA and EDMONTON.  The Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control, Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada and Action on Smoking & Health (ASH Canada) are disappointed by the joint statement issued on World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) by the Minister of Health, the Hon. Mark Holland, and the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, the Hon. Ya’ara Saks. The ministers’ silence on key issues has…

Health Canada makes it legal for flavoured nicotine products from Imperial Tobacco to be sold to children
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Health Canada makes it legal for flavoured nicotine products from Imperial Tobacco to be sold to children

Health organizations call on federal government to take immediate action Ottawa, November 14, 2023 – Health Canada has approved the sale of flavoured nicotine pouches by Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. in such a way that the products can be legally sold to children of any age. Moreover, Imperial Tobacco can promote these products on TV or…

Majority of Canadians want provincial governments to use the current insolvency process to force Big Tobacco to phase out cigarette sales
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Majority of Canadians want provincial governments to use the current insolvency process to force Big Tobacco to phase out cigarette sales

Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, September 26, 2023 – A new Leger poll finds that there is strong public support (70%) for provinces to use their lawsuits against tobacco companies to mandate a phase out of the commercial sale of cigarettes in Canada. The survey was conducted from August 30 to September 9 among 2,709 Canadians. The…

Four and a half years of negotiating with Big Tobacco, but no deal in sight
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Four and a half years of negotiating with Big Tobacco, but no deal in sight

PRESS RELEASE HEALTH GROUPS URGE PROVINCES TO PRIORITIZE TOBACCO VICTIMS’ CLAIMS AND CALL ON THEM TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY. Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, September 20, 2023 – Next week on September 27, 2023, Canadian tobacco companies will ask Ontario’s Chief Justice for another six-month reprieve from lawsuits…

On this World No Tobacco Day, it’s time to call for a No-Tobacco Canada
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On this World No Tobacco Day, it’s time to call for a No-Tobacco Canada

Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, May 29, 2023 – On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day 2023, tobacco control organizations are calling on governments to use the historic opportunity of tobacco manufacturers’ facing bankruptcy and concentrate their efforts at winding up commercial tobacco companies in Canada. They urge governments to recognize that a monetary settlement that…

Des médecins cherchent à obtenir une ordonnance de la Cour fédérale afin de forcer Santé Canada de se conformer à la loi sur le tabac
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Des médecins cherchent à obtenir une ordonnance de la Cour fédérale afin de forcer Santé Canada de se conformer à la loi sur le tabac

La production du rapport obligatoire affiche un retard de plus de cinq mois (Ottawa–le 15 novembre 2022) Une ONG nationale de santé a fait une demande hier auprès de la Cour fédérale pour qu’elle ordonne à Santé Canada de compléter son analyse, dont la production tarde, de la Loi sur le tabac et les produits de…

Doctors seek Federal Court Order to Force Health Canada to Comply with Tobacco Law
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Doctors seek Federal Court Order to Force Health Canada to Comply with Tobacco Law

Mandatory Report More Than Five Months Overdue (Ottawa – November 14, 2022) Today a national health charity applied for a Federal Court order directing Health Canada to complete its overdue review of the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act and to present the results to Parliament. “The law is crystal clear” said Dr. Atul Kapur, president…

Health Canada’s about-face on reporting requirements for the vaping industry is a bad sign for public health
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Health Canada’s about-face on reporting requirements for the vaping industry is a bad sign for public health

PRESS RELEASE.  July 26, 2022 Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PSC) is concerned that Health Canada’s recently circulated draft regulations to require  vaping product manufacturers to provide the department with information on its products and activities reflect a departmental priority for the concerns of business over the public health benefit of better information on what…