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‘Clear the Smoke’: Imperial Tobacco launches an illegal health-reassurance ad campaign
Last week Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. launched a new campaign using the industry's decades' old strategy of invoking medical experts as pitch-men for their products. This post documents how this [...]Science has marched on: it’s time to update the advice to Canadians
A year ago we reported on the scientific progress that had been made since 2018, when the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued its conclusions on the Public [...]The enforcement of Canada’s tobacco and vaping laws.
This post reports on efforts by Canadian governments to ensure that retailers of vaping products follow provincial and federal laws, and identifies where official and community reports on [...]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 [...]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 [...]Why does British Columbia lag behind when it comes to taking cigarettes out of pharmacies?
More than 30 years ago, Canadian health organizations began to campaign for pharmacies to stop selling cigarettes. One by one, 9 provinces and 3 territories amended their tobacco laws to end this [...]TAAT: Another challenge for tobacco regulators
What looks like a cigarette, tastes like a cigarette and smells like a cigarette but is not regulated like a cigarette?
Meet TAAT, a hemp-based cigarette look-alike. Made by a Canadian [...]Insolvency court forces Canada’s tobacco companies to reveal financial information.
Next week Justice McEwan of Ontario's Superior Court will be asked for the sixth time to extend the insolvency protection orders under which Canada's 3 main tobacco companies are maintaining [...]Big Tobacco and New Cannabis (and why we should care)
This week's news that British American Tobacco (BAT) acquired a large share of Organigram, a Canadian cannabis company should have come as no surprise. Tobacco companies have recently signalled [...]
