The federal flavour ban has been announced. 14,921 signatures have been received from the time i posted this. Let’s see how many more we can get!
Just because We now mix doesn’t mean this isn’t important. Think how many of would not have quit smoking if no flavours were avail and how many more won’t…
Edit. Petition closes June 29. So sign it now! Don’t wait! And be sure to click the confirmation link in your email or your sig won’t count.
This really show you the government doesn't care about health, safety or the children it claim to be protecting.
Kids rebel and vape because that's what kids do. Now they will smoke instead of vaping like we all did back in the day. I was 14 when I started smoking. I don't think kids should vape but I would rather have my kids vape than smoke cigarettes.
Plus I ask the question if we are banning flavors because kids like flavors....
WHO THE FRIG IS THE BIRTHDAY CAKE FLAVORED VODKA FOR?
Anyone reading this please go and sign this petition.
on that note.. vodka coolers, pre mixed drinks in a can, ciders, flavored hard liquor.... they dont care because its HIGHLY taxed
if they could get away with a sin tax on vapes they would do that instead.. but they know theres no way in hell they are going to get 50+ % tax like they do on tobacco AND its too easy for your average joe to put up a little bit of money and open a vape shop or slightly more money and open a juice manufacturer... tobacco is however INSANELY expensive to get into and is regulated heavily so that only a handful of organizations can reap the rewards and none of them are your average joe
The flavoured alcohol is always my argument too. But gov gets their take off that so it’s not harmful of course. 🙄.
as a mom to a teenager I totally agree. Fortunately my kid isn’t into any of that but if they came home smoking, dam right I’d be switching them over.
No I won't sign the petition because it's a waste of time, just like voting. WTF do people think they still have a voice in this corrupt system? It's time to tear it all down, not sign freaking petitions. Tell ya what, I'll start growing my own tobacco like my grandfather did, then find someone here to help me extract it. We'll sell it back to the community with no f$%ing GST and tell the government to go f*#! themselves. I'm not waiting for "permission". They have no authority, legal or moral. There's no such thing as "public health".
The real rub is governments don’t want people to quit smoking. They’ve become addicted to all the sin tax “revenue”. If the goal is getting smokers to quit, why hasn’t vaping been classified as a nicotine replacement therapy?
Full disclosure: I’m not Canadian, but I imagine similar things are in the works for the US
Yep. Exactly.
In the last month they’ve banned all rebuildables because they’re not childproof ffs and capped nic at 20 mg. And now flavours. They’re just trying to tank the vaping industry. And it’s working. I’d rather quit than go back to vaping sub ohm. Fuck that. Basically as long as my rda’s last… then I’m done.
Alcohol: OK
Cigarettes: OK
Incense: OK
Cannabis: OK
Fog machines: OK
Fog machines with flavored fog: OK
Vapes with almost identical flavored fog: Nope!
Common sense: Hell no!
that about sums it up, but if we can't DIY, we're effed
I agree. I'm all for regulation. Regulated alcohol means you won't go blind from it, regulated cannabis means it will not be sprayed with synthetic cannabinoids. The inconsistency really bugs me tho, vape is practically identical to fog machines yet vapes carry a warning. Incense in a poorly ventilated space can be worse than cigarettes, yet no warning on those.
Meanwhile in the UK, smokers visiting the emergency room are offered vape starter kits, and vaping is key to their campaign for a smoke free UK.
Here in Sweden all flavours except tobacco risk getting banned. Like Charles A Gardner said on Twitter: "Forcing adult ex-smokers to vape tobacco flavor is morally equivalent to forcing recovering alcoholics to drink rum-flavored sodas. Forcing adult vapers into designated SMOKING zones is like making them drink those sodas in a bar. No sane person would think that's a good idea."
Lol you Canadians have way more to worry about then just flavour bans. You have Chinese military in your country and your government keeps locking you down and even the other day said it was to keep the spread of misinformation at a minimum rather than about health. Don’t believe me? Here ya go twitter link
I believe you! Our PM is a fucking (tru)dope. What can I say? I didn’t vote for him. Either time. He didn’t even win popular vote. Ppl hate him and his shady reform. First act at the start of the pandemic was to disarm everyone in the sneakiest and most conniving way 🤔 He has destroyed this country in ways that will take forever to recover from. It’s not an “oops” situation. It’s been methodical and intentional.
Yes totally! It’s really freaky considering you guys are so close to us and I’m afraid if it progresses much more there it will eventually trickle down here and we will be next. Hopefully some of y’all take a stand soon.
And the fact that we’ve statistically been, once of the less politically corrupt countries! Like if this shit can happen here it can happen anywhere. They’re trying to pass an open censorship law right now. It’s terrifying.
Canadians are so passive. Hard to get ppl riled up to fight Injustice.
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Flavored cigars and cigarellos were banned in most of Canada close to 10 years ago. Menthol cigs were banned more recently, around 5 years ago. Varies a bit province by province.
Mental cigarettes are not illegal in Canada, infact the flavour ban even allows mental and tobacco flavours only.