Quebec sues tobacco companies for $60B - Health - CBC News
This has been covered, I'm sure, in depth to the "n"th degree. However, the following quote has me wondering about some of the assumptions about BT and our governments:
That is almost half of Canadian provincial governments targeting tobacco companies in what I consider a big movement. As a whole, Canada has been bringing down the hammer on cigarettes and the companies that supply them. No more added flavours (except for menthol), increase in price (again)1, gross pictures and warnings/labels all over the packages. Imperial Tobacco claims that it is a cash grab, but I think it's a bigger push to suppress tobacco companies and make it even more difficult to supply cigarettes and to probably be another step toward banning them altogether. For the health risks that develop in smokers (we ALL have our stories, right?), I do like to see this as a step forward (although I might not have before I switched to vaping...).
With that stated, do you think Canada will make it easier or more difficult to vape with nicotine liquid? I could see it going either way. It could become easier, because they could push smokers to switch to vaping with more research and studies done about it being incredibly successful and definitely the "lesser evil". It could become more difficult though if they change legislation regarding nicotine in general which would probably have a negative impact on our vendors - and us - to get our pg and vg with nic in them.
1 I do recall a time when a pack of smokes was close to $15 for my mom (in the 1990's I think?) and tons of people were getting them off the black market. The prices were dropped to around $4 a pack to circumvent the impact of the black market. I'm already seeing that happen again as a pack costs around $12 and people seem to go to the reserves to get them now or to the black market for cheaper prices. Again, I'd love to know your thoughts on how you think this will play out with regards to the provincial governments breaking out the lawsuits and how big tobacco might respond to it.
This has been covered, I'm sure, in depth to the "n"th degree. However, the following quote has me wondering about some of the assumptions about BT and our governments:
That is almost half of Canadian provincial governments targeting tobacco companies in what I consider a big movement. As a whole, Canada has been bringing down the hammer on cigarettes and the companies that supply them. No more added flavours (except for menthol), increase in price (again)1, gross pictures and warnings/labels all over the packages. Imperial Tobacco claims that it is a cash grab, but I think it's a bigger push to suppress tobacco companies and make it even more difficult to supply cigarettes and to probably be another step toward banning them altogether. For the health risks that develop in smokers (we ALL have our stories, right?), I do like to see this as a step forward (although I might not have before I switched to vaping...).
With that stated, do you think Canada will make it easier or more difficult to vape with nicotine liquid? I could see it going either way. It could become easier, because they could push smokers to switch to vaping with more research and studies done about it being incredibly successful and definitely the "lesser evil". It could become more difficult though if they change legislation regarding nicotine in general which would probably have a negative impact on our vendors - and us - to get our pg and vg with nic in them.
1 I do recall a time when a pack of smokes was close to $15 for my mom (in the 1990's I think?) and tons of people were getting them off the black market. The prices were dropped to around $4 a pack to circumvent the impact of the black market. I'm already seeing that happen again as a pack costs around $12 and people seem to go to the reserves to get them now or to the black market for cheaper prices. Again, I'd love to know your thoughts on how you think this will play out with regards to the provincial governments breaking out the lawsuits and how big tobacco might respond to it.
I doubt it will happen again and if tobacco companies are continuously sued and have to part with money, they will recoup the loss from the consumer.
