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No more cotton candy vaping products for youth, B.C. to restrict sales

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 20 Jul, 2020 09:26 PM
  • No more cotton candy vaping products for youth, B.C. to restrict sales

The British Columbia government has followed through on a promise to try to stop young people from vaping with regulations that prevent the sale of products that taste like anything but nicotine.

The proposed changes expected to be in place by the end of summer would immediately stop all retailers from selling non-nicotine or nicotine-cannabis blended vapour products.

Health Minister Adrian Dix says the sale of flavoured nicotine vapour products, which are attractive to youth, will now be restricted to adult-only shops.

Other changes include restricting the amount of nicotine in the pods and retailers would only be allowed to sell vapour products that are plainly packaged with health warnings.

Health Canada set out new rules earlier this month banning the promotion of vaping products in places young people can access and preventing dessert, cannabis, soft drinks and candy flavours.

A Canadian student tobacco, alcohol and drugs survey from last year says teen vaping is on the rise with 20 per cent of high school students saying they used e-cigarettes in the last month, double the rate reported in 2016-2017.

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