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Confusion and non-compliance: One month into new vaping regulations.
Despite federal and provincial regulations, high-nicotine flavoured products with substandard warnings continue to be sold in convenience stores in Ontario. Whether they will be allowed to [...]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 [...]Five large Canadian public pension plans have said “no” to tobacco investments.
For most Canadian workers, ten and a half cents on every pay-cheque dollar is deducted as a contribution to our national public pension program. Workers in Quebec contribute to the Quebec Pension [...]A Canada Day holiday – and the start date for several tobacco control regulations.
Health Authorities have a tendency to use the first days of January and July as the moment when regulations come into force. And so it is that this week a number of changes to the tobacco and [...]Smoking rates have fallen — but maybe not for the reason you think.
Last week Statistics Canada made available the Public Use Microdata from the Canadian Community Health Survey conducted in 2017 and 2018. The gift of a 1000 variables!
The Canadian Community [...]The PATH that leads to understanding the vaping epidemic
Finding the PATH
Since 2013, there has been a remarkable survey operating in the United States that has deepened our understanding of tobacco and e-cigarettes use and consequences. It is [...]Nova Scotia and Ontario move to curb high-nicotine vaping products
While the world and public health systems have been gripped with managing COVID-19, a number of regulatory changes have nonetheless been put in place with respect to vaping products.
This post [...]New vaping promotions expose challenges to regulators.
Over the past couple of weeks, BAT (owner of Nicoventures and Imperial Tobacco Canada) has launched new promotions in Canada for its vaping products. This campaign is part of a global re-branding [...]Calculating the profits of tobacco companies in Canada
How much do tobacco companies make in Canada?
Answering that question became more difficult about a decade ago, after all three of the traditional tobacco companies (BAT-Imperial Tobacco [...]Recent press releases
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