Every year federal and provincial governments provide the public with financial reports, including information on how much revenue the have collected in tobacco taxes. The last of these ‘Public Accounts’ for the last fiscal year (April 1 2018 to March 31 2019) was tabled in the House of Commons last week. Time for an update…
A price war is underway among the four main manufacturers of the pod-style vaping products that are sold in convenience stores. Over the fall, each of the companies which sell these JUUL-type products has reduced its retail and/or on-line prices. The cost of a tellingly-labelled “starter kit” for JUUL imitators (Logic and Vype) is now…
Yesterday Alberta became the first province to say that it intends to put a tax on vaping products. The measure was announced in the province’s annual budget. What took so long? Why are other governments not taking action? By any number of criteria, health-oriented taxes and price controls are needed on vaping products, just as…
Action on Smoking and Health, Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control OTTAWA – New data supplied by Health Canada reveals that tobacco companies have repeatedly hiked cigarette prices for several years while simultaneously fighting off federal and provincial tobacco tax increases. The price increases amount…
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. Coalition Québécoise pour le contrôle du tabac Health groups call on finance ministers to strengthen tobacco tax policies. (Ottawa and Montreal). Health groups today called on finance and revenue ministers to respond to tobacco manufacturers’ recent price hikes and to protect public health by curbing the profits of multinational tobacco…