Flavoured tobacco and e-cigs under attack again in Canada.

[crullers]

I had the radio on earlier and they did a bit about this http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flavou...rvey-1.1928160. I'm getting pretty tired of the whole "think about the children" mantra - if kids want to use tobacco they will, especially cigarettes which are easy to get and cheap by comparison to smokeless. In my opinion it's up to the parents to deal with and not the government.

And before I hear anybody trot out the tired old argument against socialized medicine being the culprit... Calculate the tax revenue generated on tobacco products, subtract cost of healthcare treating those who have tobacco-related illnesses. Don't forget about those who have expired prematurely due to lung cancer, emphysema, etc. Should be on the plus side of the ledger right? We will never know here because tobacco tax goes directly into general revenue rather than health care. And the biggest shame of it is that we will never know how much smokeless tobacco saves or greatly prolongs life by reducing cardiopulmonary sickness.

/rant

edit: I do take heart in most of the comments at end of this article.

[Kaplan]

There's a lot of yammering about regulating it here in the States, too. I have no problem with outlawing underage sale, but anything else is just busybody nitwits trying to control what other people do with their lives. And good luck regulating flavors, because it seems to me there's nothing they could do with businesses selling the nicotine and the flavoring separate and letting people mix their own.

[Snusdog]

And good luck regulating flavors, because it seems to me there's nothing they could do with businesses selling the nicotine and the flavoring separate and letting people mix their own.

That is a really good point/work around

Especially considering V2 already does just that with their snus buckets

[Darwin]

Although vaping can be pursued on a do-it-yourself basis fairly easily I'm not sure how that would work with snus, especially the separate nicotine idea since the nic is not added to the product but rather is inherent in its makeup. The whole business of flavors attracting whippersnappers is merely obfuscatory flim-flam by tax grasping regulators and nanny-state anti-tobacco busybodies whose long range goal is "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." That is a T.S. White quote referring to ants in an anthill but it succinctly captures the Orwellian spirit abroad in the land.

[Skell18]

When they start rolling out the "to protect the kids" line you know they are scraping the (blue) barrel and have no other arguements, they just want to hear the sound of their own voices!