Concern is that government interference might create a black market for illegal vaping products
The battle continues in the vaping industry to try to fend off interference from Health Canada and other public health agencies that regard vaping as a less-than-desirable substitute for smoking tobacco.
New rules from Health Canada are aimed at reducing the amount of nicotine that is allowed in a vaping device as well as forbidding the use of flavored vaping liquids that health agencies say are too attractive to younger people.
According to a recent Backgrounder document from Health Canada (June 2021), youth smoking is at its lowest level in decades, but it claims vaping is putting a new generation of Canadians at risk of nicotine addiction and the harms related to vaping. Health Canada is proposing new laws to make the activity as unappealing as possible.
The Health Canada argument is based on the idea that vaping — inhalation of flavoured vapours — is inherently dangerous.
Len Gillis – Sudbury.com – 2021-07-02.
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