Canada’s approach to vaping regulation is showing signs of strain. Excise taxes meant to curb smoking are now being applied to nicotine vaping products, driving up prices, shrinking the legal market, and opening the door to illicit trade.
Today on RegWatch, Canadian Vaping Association President Sam Tam breaks down how flavour bans and punitive excise taxes are driving down legal sales, forcing retail closures, increasing cigarette sales, and fueling a rapidly expanding illicit market—even linked to targeted arson attacks on vape shops.
Is this failed policy or a predictable outcome?
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Released: April 15, 2026
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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this is exactly what big tobacco and big government wants. Take away a safe product and force you back into a dangerous product full of nasty chemicals, TOBACCO.
They have no evidence of vaping being dangerous. Past testing they did were done under conditions that vapers would never do by stacking batteries and blowing metal off the coil.
The FDA and EPA is a criminal organization ran by a bunch of gangsters of government. They FDA approved products known to harm people get big dollars by corporations and make there rules. Only congress should have authority to strip you rights to safe products.