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Industry warns of health risks as fake vaping products increase

Growth of smoking alternatives provides opportunity for bootleggers Fake vaping products and less harmful smoking alternatives are creeping into the emerging e-cigarette market and pose...

Cigar lounges exempted in new smoking and vaping regulations

Change called 'very regressive reversal of 13 years of effective public health policy' The Alberta government has slipped an exemption that would allow cigar lounges...

U.S. Surgeon General Calls For Marijuana Decriminalization

At least he's got something right to say this time. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes that marijuana consumption should be decriminalized at the state and...

Vaping flavour bans prove own goal for public health advocates

The Canadian federal government recently published draft regulations to ban almost all e-cigarette flavours across the nation, with only tobacco and mint/menthol flavours left untouched. The...

Facebook announces sweeping new restrictions on criticism of protected groups

The Social Justice Network The battle over permissible speech in American society was helpfully, and predictably, elaborated by Facebook last week in an update to...