{"id":13211,"date":"2024-09-11T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/canadas-nicotine-pouch-ban-is-deadly-error-defying-science-health-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:09:45","slug":"canadas-nicotine-pouch-ban-is-deadly-error-defying-science-health-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/canadas-nicotine-pouch-ban-is-deadly-error-defying-science-health-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s nicotine pouch ban is \u201cdeadly error defying science,\u201d health experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Canada\u2019s new ban on nicotine pouches is a \u201cdeadly error\u201d and \u201cbackward step\u201d in the global fight against the toll of tobacco, health experts have warned.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Nicotine pouches are proven to be significantly safer alternatives to cigarettes and help millions of smokers worldwide to quit, according to global health campaign group Smoke Free Sweden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">It says the products have played a major role in dramatically reducing smoking rates in Sweden, which is now on the brink of becoming the first country to achieve official \u2018smoke-free\u2019 status.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Despite evidence proving their effectiveness as a tool to quit smoking, smokers across Canada are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/canada-bans-sale-of-nicotine-pouches-outside-of-pharmacies\" id=\"\">banned from buying nicotine pouches<\/a> outside of pharmacies. As of August 28, they are only available behind the counter of chemists, and anyone buying them must speak to a pharmacist first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">All fruit flavours have also been recalled, with only mint and tobacco flavours remaining on sale.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">\u2018It could have fatal consequences\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Dr. Delon Human, leader of the Smoke Free Sweden campaign to replicate the Swedes\u2019 success around the world, said: \u201cThis backward step by Canada\u2019s lawmakers defies all international evidence and could have fatal consequences for the country\u2019s smokers who need every assistance to escape the grip of tobacco.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u201cPouches are proven to help smokers to quit and have been instrumental in the Swedes virtually eradicating smoking and reaping the remarkable public health benefits from that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"\"><p>\u201cLike Sweden, Canada should be making safer alternatives, like pouches and vapes, accessible, acceptable and affordable. Canada\u2019s new laws are a move in the opposite direction and a deadly error.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Sweden\u2019s smoking rate success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Smoking rates in Sweden have <a href=\"http:\/\/fohm-app.folkhalsomyndigheten.se\/Folkhalsodata\/pxweb\/en\/A_Folkhalsodata\/A_Folkhalsodata__B_HLV__aLevvanor__aagLevvanortobak\/hlv1tobaald.px\/\" id=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plummeted by 55 per cent<\/a> over the last decade, thanks to its progressive policies on alternative nicotine products.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Compared to the rest of the European Union, Sweden boasts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/345643346_Tobacco-related_mortality_SwedenEU_easier_readable_charts\" id=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">44 per cent fewer tobacco-related deaths, a 41 per cent lower cancer rate, and 38 per cent fewer deaths attributable to any cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Recent evidence from the US reports that one third of adult vapers aged under 34 said that, if \u201cvape product sales were restricted to tobacco flavours,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ntr\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/ntr\/ntab154\/6332852?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" id=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they would switch to smoking<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">This demonstrates that limiting the availability of flavours in alternative nicotine products could harm public health.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u200d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s new ban on nicotine pouches is a \u201cdeadly error\u201d and \u201cbackward step\u201d in the global fight against the toll of tobacco, health experts have warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990002,"featured_media":13217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"slider":[],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15871,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions\/15871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/slider?post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}