Red Letter Day for Health of Canadians as Government Mandates Drab Brown Tobacco Packaging
Red Letter Day for Health of Canadians as Government Mandates Drab Brown Tobacco Packaging
The Board, staff, and members of the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association (NSRA) reacted with jubilation to the announcement today by Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor that the government has published draft regulations requiring plain and standardized packaging for all tobacco products.
Red Letter Day for Health of Canadians as Government Mandates Drab Brown Tobacco Packaging
The Board, staff, and members of the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association (NSRA) reacted with jubilation to the announcement today by Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor that the government has published draft regulations requiring plain and standardized packaging for all tobacco products.
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E-Cigarette Regulation Update March 2018
Globally-speaking, we are in the midst of a very large natural experiment in which e-cigarettes are being regulated in different ways around the world. Some countries classify and regulate them as electronic cigarettes, others as tobacco or tobacco-related products, while other countries regulate them as consumer products and/or medicines. How these vastly different regulatory approaches affect smoking rates and public health are yet to be determined; time, nationally representative surveillance data and health research will eventually tell. The table below summarizes the most common ways that e-cigarettes are classified around the world
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