[Newsbot]

Title: Vape shops fuming over Ontario's proposed restrictions
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2017-11-26 00:09:48
Canadian

[Freakinoldguy]

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Vape shop owners fear the new rules would ban their staff from showing customers how to use e-cigarettes or letting them sample flavoured vaping products known as e-juice. But government officials insist this is not their intent.

Treating e-cigarettes the same way as tobacco cigarettes "is in direct contradiction" with the government's goal of getting people not to smoke, Maria Papaioannoy, co-owner of Ecig Flavorium, a vape shop with outlets in Toronto and Port Hope, Ont.

So the gov't and owners intent is to get people hooked on something that's not those unhealthy cigarettes and is all around better for the body.


What an utter load of bollocks. E cigarettes and vaping aren't exactly healthy and just because they don't belong to that other evil empire, Big Tobacco doesn't mean they shouldn't have to follow as stringent rules and regulations regarding the sales and marketing as it does.

www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/ ... sks-vaping

[BeaverFever]

Vaping is the stupidest thing ever and vapers look like complete idiots. Didn’t US and Canada health officials long ago ban e-cigs from making stop-smoking claims?

[herbie]

If it helps someone stop smoking then fuck off with the moralizing. It's should be restricted because it's not 100% healthy and steam = 2nd hand smoke are bullshit arguments. Just like expensive sprays, gums and patches that don't goddam stick are bullshit. Harm Reduction is the new model for junkies and hard drug users, apply the same damn approach. Anything that is less harmful and steers you from cigarettes should be available.

The current model where even if you have to be an adult to enter a tobacconist shop they still have to be hidden and locked in gun cases is bullshit.