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NNSW – Progress towards implementing the advice of Canada’s Chief Medical Officers of Health

The overarching objectives of these recommendations are to protect young people from inducements to use vaping devices by regulating such devices as equivalent to tobacco products, and to encourage smokers who use vaping devices to use them solely to end or reduce their use of all nicotine-containing products. Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health…

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Guess who’s behind Canada’s vapers’ protest movement?

European journalists recently investigated the relationship between public opposition to e-cigarette regulation and tobacco companies and other corporate interests. Last week their findings were published in the French newspaper of record, Le Monde: VAPING: The real dollars behind fake consumer organisations. While their focus was mostly on activities in Europe, the report also spotlighted connections between…

The vaping industry compliance deficit
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The vaping industry compliance deficit

This week Health Canada released the results of its inspections of the instagram accounts of Canadian vaping suppliers. Just over half (53%) of the 304 suppliers failed inspection. The industry fared somewhat better on this test than they did on the previous round of inspections of their retail stores in the summer and fall of 2019. On those occasions, fewer than 1…

Six Insights from the (newly released) Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey.
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Six Insights from the (newly released) Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey.

Earlier this week, Statistics Canada made available the public use microfile for the second wave of the Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey. The agency has further modernized its data release methods, and the file is easily accessible to the public. This post looks at some key findings from this survey – more detail and data tables are…

Does Canada’s Climate Change Action Plan have lessons for tobacco control?
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Does Canada’s Climate Change Action Plan have lessons for tobacco control?

What happens when governments announce targets to achieve important public objectives, but then fail to develop adequate plans to achieve them? Or when their plans for achieving these targets are side-swiped by later events? Or swept aside by subsequent administrations? Stewards of the environment have faced these challenges and have developed a system to improve…

Ian Irvine, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and the CD Howe Institute
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Ian Irvine, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and the CD Howe Institute

Over the past months Canadians have heard the views on vaping regulations of Concordia University economist Ian Irvine. Recently the Globe and Mail’s business editor gave space to his opinion that taxes on vaping products should not be so high as to discourage people from using them and that governments should do more to encourage smokers who…

Tobacco 21 – More evidence on the benefits of raising the minimum legal age
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Tobacco 21 – More evidence on the benefits of raising the minimum legal age

Raising the minimum sale age for tobacco to 21 has emerged as a highly recommended measure for tobacco control systems. This blog reviews the history of Tobacco 21 measures and the research that has been conducted on the effectiveness of this measure at reducing tobacco or e-cigarette use by young people. (A downloadable version is…

A new year begins… and so do some tobacco-related measures
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A new year begins… and so do some tobacco-related measures

The new year is a common date for governments to peg for implementing regulations or new rules. This year is no exception, with new tobacco control provisions kicking in this week. Other regular New Year’s changes will be price increases set by tobacco companies. This post reviews these events — with related and updated fact…

Industry raises prices – AGAIN – while taxes remain largely unchanged
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Industry raises prices – AGAIN – while taxes remain largely unchanged

In mid-August, Imperial Tobacco again raised prices on its tobacco products. As shown in the price list circulated to retailers and pasted below, they are now charging from $2.50 to $4.50 more per carton in Ontario. Price increases in other provinces have not yet been located, but they are usually imposed at the same time….

Will British Columbia be the world’s second jurisdiction to require plain packaging of e-cigarettes?
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Will British Columbia be the world’s second jurisdiction to require plain packaging of e-cigarettes?

There may be a very important sleeper among the suite of measures to address youth vaping announced by the British Columbia government yesterday. One of the regulations introduced by minister of health Adrian Dix is a requirement that all vaping liquids be sold in plainish packages by mid-September. The regulation does not apply to packaging of the…