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Brief submitted to: Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

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Regarding: Bill C-31, Part 4, Division 12 — Tobacco and Vaping Products Act Submitted by: Maria Papaioannoy Founder, Rights 4 Vapers September 2026 Senators, My name is Maria Papaioannoy, founder of Rights 4 Vapers. I have spent years advocating for people who smoke, people who vape and people trying to leave cigarettes behind. I know

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TWO YEARS LATER, WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE CANADA’S NICOTINE POUCH POLICY IS WORKING?

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Rights4Vapers calls on Health Minister Marjorie Michel to show Canadians the results of the 2024 Ministerial Order TORONTO, September 23, 2026 — Following comments by federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel that she is not considering changes to Canada’s restrictions on nicotine pouches, Rights4Vapers (R4V) says there is a more fundamental question that needs answering: What

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Canada’s Pouch Policy: A Masterclass in Creating a Black Market

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It began with an RV, a camera, and a cross-country mission to answer a simple question: what does Canada’s nicotine pouch market actually look like two years after the federal government restricted legal sales to pharmacies? The team from Rights4Vapers (R4V), a safer-nicotine advocacy group, expected to find a market constrained by regulation. What they

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Opinion: In Saskatchewan, I was too old to buy illegal nicotine pouches, and that should concern us

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I have been travelling across Canada to take a real look at the illegal nicotine pouch market. The journey started in Montreal, and over the course of the week, we landed in Saskatchewan. Every province is different. Some are brazen (like Ontario). Manitoba has too much demand to keep up with supply. And, in Saskatchewan,

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A cross-country road trip uncovered a booming illicit nicotine pouch market

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Health Canada denies that the 2024 ministerial order has contributed to the growth of the black market for nicotine pouches. OTTAWA — A nicotine users’ rights group is calling on Ottawa to loosen restrictions on nicotine pouches, after uncovering a booming illicit market in a cross-country road trip. Members of Rights 4 Vapers purchased 148 illegal

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Canada has an illegal nicotine market. @jerryAgar1010 speaks with Maria Papaioannoy, founder of Rights4Vapers about the nicotine market.

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Canada has an illegal nicotine market. @jerryAgar1010 speaks with Maria Papaioannoy, founder of Rights4Vapers about the nicotine market. Listen HERE

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R4V went looking for illegal nicotine pouches across Canada and found a market created by bad public policy.

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Two years after Ottawa restricted legal nicotine pouches to pharmacies, ten-day road trip finds a rampant illegal market. TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2026 /CNW/ — After ten days on the road, thousands of kilometres and stops in communities from Montreal to Edmonton, the Rights4Vapers (R4V) team has reached a clear conclusion: restricting legal nicotine pouches to pharmacies has not made

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Our Letter to Minister Michel in response to that press conference

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Dear Minister Michel, I am writing to you today to address the theatrical performance that was held in the West Block on Friday, by government-funded tobacco control leaders where they made claims that 50,000 high school students have started vaping since you took office and uses that figure to call for a national ban on

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