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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Toronto, Ontario – March 15, 2024 – In an emotional presentation, Rights4Vapers spelled out the unintended consequences of a federal flavoured vaper products ban and echoed the calls from the one million Canadians who vape: “flavours helped us quit smoking”. “Flavours are key for adults starting vaping as an alternative, linked to more attempts to
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Toronto, Ontario – February 19, 2024 – Public health groups across the country have found a new enemy in their war on nicotine: smoking cessation products. These so-called health groups are pushing to make life saving products harder to buy and less appealing than cigarettes. “These are organizations whose goal is the health and well-being
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TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2024 /CNW/ – Today, marks the beginning of National Non-Smoking Week. On behalf of all Canadians who vape, Rights4Vapers urges policy makers and health groups to listen to the lived experiences of Canadians who have chosen non-traditional methods to quit smoking. Vaping is not smoking and is a proven way for smokers to quit.
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