Health Canada / REAL Tobacco safer/ E-CIGS are Smokeless Tobacco, Toxic, side effects.. Proof please?
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Crap. Reading this and then came across a retailer in the USA who had his credit card account shut down because the FDA is now regulating ecig stuff as tobacco, and tobacco cannot be sold online.
Damned if you do, and damned if you don't
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...elled-our-account-because-fda-regulation.html
Damned if you do, and damned if you don't
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...elled-our-account-because-fda-regulation.html
Aww girlsaint, that sucks.
That's one reason I'm very glad that ECITA has successfully been putting forth the "general sales products" classification in the UK & EU. Our structure of laws has far more in common with the UK than the US. A "general sales products" classification would be the ideal outcome, and make the best fit for Canadians.
The second-best option ("tobacco products" classification) would in all likelihood restrict sales to stores (though Canadian law does offer some room for potential leeway, to allow sales to continue as now...too complicated to go into now, but yeah). But even if all our purchases had to be made in stores, like in person, it would still mean we have access. You can see why HC isn't exactly chomping at the bit to go that route.
Either way, we're going to fight & win for Canadians to have permanent, legal access to vaping as a safer, recreationally satisfying alternative to smoking.
That's one reason I'm very glad that ECITA has successfully been putting forth the "general sales products" classification in the UK & EU. Our structure of laws has far more in common with the UK than the US. A "general sales products" classification would be the ideal outcome, and make the best fit for Canadians.
The second-best option ("tobacco products" classification) would in all likelihood restrict sales to stores (though Canadian law does offer some room for potential leeway, to allow sales to continue as now...too complicated to go into now, but yeah). But even if all our purchases had to be made in stores, like in person, it would still mean we have access. You can see why HC isn't exactly chomping at the bit to go that route.
Either way, we're going to fight & win for Canadians to have permanent, legal access to vaping as a safer, recreationally satisfying alternative to smoking.
Well I see this as part of my point about the perception of PV as a cigarette. The only thing that should be consider a tobacco product by that definition is the juice. If PV is seen as it's own separate industry in which nicotine is secondary then they can only shut down the juice - not the whole shibang.
HC has probably taken it's blatant propoganda queues from the FDA circa 2007-8.
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