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In early April, we received a “Third Party Consult” request from Health Canada. You can read the request below for yourself: “Health Canada has received a request under the Access to Information Act (the Act) that has produced records which originated from and/or may be of interest to your organization, Rights 4 Vapers. The request
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Dear Minister Michel, Congratulations on your appointment as Canada’s Minister of Health! I’m sure that during the campaign, you had the opportunity to meet many incredible people. I feel truly fortunate to have met you by chance outside your campaign office. In our brief conversation, we spoke about the stigma surrounding smoking and nicotine use,
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Dear Council, My name is Maria Papaioannoy, and I am with Rights 4 Vapers—Canada’s largest consumer movement advocating for safer nicotine products. I offer this as my written submission in response to “Item 9.3 of the General Issues Committee Minutes” I appreciate the passion young people have shown around vaping. Let me be clear: we
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Toronto, Ontario – April 30, 2025 – Rights4Vapers, Canada’s largest vaping and safer nicotine advocacy movement, congratulates the Liberal Party on forming the next federal government and calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the incoming Ministers of Health and Mental Health and Addictions to take bold steps toward a modern, evidence-based nicotine policy that
Toronto, Ontario – October 28, 2024 – Rights4Vapers, Canada’s largest vapers’ rights and safer nicotine advocacy movement, has found that flavoured vapour products can be purchased easily in the province, there is a thriving black market, and there is no doubt the same thing will happen in the rest of the country if a
Dear Minister Saks and Health Canada, I was disappointed to see in several news reports that you intend to ‘restrict’ flavours in vapour products. Canadians who vape have been encouraged by your measured approach to this issue. I know that now these Canadians are worried. Then today, I came across a CTV News piece that
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Ottawa, Ontario – October 10, 2024 – Rights4Vapers, Canada’s largest vapers’ rights and safer nicotine advocacy movement, is calling on the federal government to dismantle and defund so- called tobacco control organizations and implement changes to reflect the new realities of tobacco harm reduction. “Over the past 10 years, since vaping entered the market, we’ve
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Nicotine pouches can be found everywhere, including in the Minister’s own community of Ajax Pickering. TORONTO, Oct. 1, 2024 /CNW/ – Rights4Vapers, Canada’s largest vapers’ rights and safer nicotine advocacy movement, has uncovered that consumers can purchase unlicensed and illegal nicotine pouches in retail stores surrounding Health Minister Mark Holland’s Ajax office. “This
Download PDF Hello, my name is Maria Papaioannoy. I’m here as the spokesperson for Rights4Vapers. Thank you for including our movement in this process. I would like for it to be noted that this is not a fully inclusive process as over 20 thousand individual submissions were made opposing flavour bans in 2021, and not
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