Quebec Minister of Health Christian Dubé announced a ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products which could go into effect in only 90 days.
Under the proposed regulation, all flavoured vapes, except for tobacco flavoured, will be forbidden in the province.
It’s devastating news for the 250,000 nicotine vapers who rely on various flavours to stay smoke-free. And for the hundreds of small business owners and the thousands of workers in Quebec’s vaping industry, the flavour ban amounts to a death sentence for their businesses.
Joining us today to discuss the impact of the Quebec flavour ban is David Levesque, spokesperson for ABVQ, the association for specialty vape shops in Quebec and founding partner of Digital Smoke Supplies.
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Released: April 20, 2023
Produced by Brent Stafford
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These reports sadden me, not only because effectively they are banning vaping, but because they are not looing at the real health effects for smokers in the provinces, they will have lost the one thing that keeps vapers from smoking, flavours are essential and banning them is counter intuitive if they are really concerned about health.
The cost in jobs and businesses will be huge and I hope this is taken off the table for future policy
I believe it’s should be our choice if we want to have flavor vapes we are not selling to kids so Crack down on the shops that are and leave the adult vapers alone