Three years after flavour ban, 77 per cent of Quebec vapers still use banned flavours
New provincial figures show fruit, mint and dessert flavours remain popular despite Quebec’s restrictions on flavoured vaping products.
New provincial figures show fruit, mint and dessert flavours remain popular despite Quebec’s restrictions on flavoured vaping products.
It comes more than three years after the regulations were first proposed.
The Canadian Vaping Association (CVA) says the proposed legislation undermines the country’s goal of becoming ‘smoke-free’ (defined as a smoking rate of under five per cent) by 2035, as it withdraws an important aid for smokers wanting to quit.
The Canadian government has banned the sale of nicotine pouches outside of pharmacies.
Vape designs should be standardised to reduce the appeal of vaping to children, a Dutch public health body has said.