(Ottawa – May 26, 2025) – Deeply concerned with the impact of the previous government’s permissive approach to nicotine vaping products, tobacco control organizations are calling on the new government to quickly align controls on this market with those used for tobacco. As part of these important reforms, they are asking for regulations to ban…
Weedless Wednesday is an annual occasion to acknowledge the harms of tobacco industry products and to commit to individual and societal action to reduce them. With the dissolution of Parliament clearly on the horizon, today is an occasion to reflect on the failure of the federal government’s failure to ameliorate the problems they caused when…
Yesterday Canada’s Chief Medical Officers repeated their call for strengthened regulation of vaping products. The Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health includes the senior health officer of each Canadian jurisdiction outside of Quebec. This includes Dr. Theresa Tam, who is the federal government’s lead public health professional. Their message to federal, provincial and municipal governments is…
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…
This week (November 17th) is the deadline for contributions to Health Canada’s legislative review of the federal tobacco law. The Minister is required by law to table a biennial report on the “provisions and operations” of the law no later that May 23, 2024. This post reports on the key recommendations contained in our response to…
On Tuesday this week, Health Canada made public its decision to issue a natural health food license to a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. As a result, British American Tobacco has become the first manufacturer to be authorized to market nicotine pouches in Canada. This federal license, issued on July 18, 2023, allows BAT/Nicoventures authority to…
It’s time to admit it is dead. In June 2021 Health Canada stated its intention to reduce youth vaping by removing flavourings from vaping liquids, and published draft regulations to that effect. Predictably, the release of the draft regulations was followed with noisy and prolonged protests and intensive lobbying by those in the business of selling these…
National Non-Smoking Week is 46 years old this month. This is an occasion to reflect on how much has – and has not – changed over the past half century. This post looks at parallels in government tobbacco policy in 1977 and 2023, and what lessons we might take from this history. For many Canadians…
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…
Almost 14 months have passed since Health Canada published draft regulations to restrict the flavourings and chemicals that could be used by e-liquid manufacturers. in vaping liquids. This post reports on developments in Canada and elsewhere that are related to restricting e-cigarette flavours. Links to more information are provided at the end of the post. Lots of…