Ontario

Health Groups Strangely Oppose Effective and Proven Smoking Cessation Products

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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Piggy Bank

Why Are You Taxing Ontarians Who Vape?

TORONTO, Nov. 6, 2023 /CNW/ – Rights4Vapers, Canada’s largest vapers’ rights movement, calls on the Government of Ontario to refrain from jumping on the taxation bandwagon and penalizing Ontarians who vape even more. “We are at a critical moment for vapour products. We are being attacked from every angle,” said Maria Papaioannoy, spokesperson for Rights4Vapers. “All we want is for adult Canadians who

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Why are you Taxing Ontarian’s that Vape?

Dear Minister Bethlenflavy, My name is Maria Papaioannoy. I represent a movement called Rights4Vapers. We speak for the millions of Canadians who have chosen their health over smoking through vaping. We met in early spring of last year at the Budget Breakfast in Cobourg. I know that you have chatted with thousands of Ontarians, but

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To my local Health Unit, HKPR, and to every other public health unit in Ontario.

Recently Health Canada updated the section of their website that focused on vaping. This update is the latest progressive action by our national public health ministry. In 2018, the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA) became law in Canada. The legislation regulates the manufacture, sale, labeling, and promotion of vaping products sold in Canada. From 2018 until recently, Public

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Response to: Pipe and Halayko: Why haven’t Ontario and Manitoba boosted taxes on vaping products?

I am writing in response to Andrew Halayko’s and Andrew Pipes  opinion piece that calls for Ontario and Manitoba to take advantage of an opportunity to raise taxes on vaping products. Professor Halayko’s piece presents outdated arguments that do not consider vaping as a powerful tool to reduce the harm caused by smoking. Kids should

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THRA Canada

THRA Canada Response to France Gelinas

From our friends at THRA Canada – you can connect with them at: info@thra.ca or on twitter at @thra_canadaTHRA Tobacco Harm Reduction Association of Canada Inc. Response to – Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Vaping is not for Kids), 2022 THRA Canada is a federal not for profit consumer organization, staffed entirely by consumer volunteers who

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