Health Canada ‘missing in action’ on youth vaping crisis, experts say – CBC

More provinces move to ban flavoured vapes as feds stall on regulation

Apr 29, 2023

Health Canada is “missing in action” on the regulation of e-cigarette flavours in Canada as youth vaping rates rise, health advocates say, and at a time when the vaping industry is expanding into highly addictive new devices that experts warn appeal directly to kids.

The federal government sounded the alarm in June 2021 over a “rapid increase in youth vaping in Canada” and proposed changes to the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act to regulate the sale of “desirable flavours” helping drive the rising use among teens.

But two years later, Canada still has some of the highest rates of youth vaping in the world and little action has been taken to regulate flavours at a national level.

Vaping has been marketed as an effective way to quit smoking, but e-cigarettes have never been approved as smoking cessation aids in Canada.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/youth-vaping-crisis-health-canada-vaping-e-cigarettes-1.6826261