So I've read a few posts lately on the topic of Health Canada's looking to meddle into our lives, and I know all of this has been talked about at great length here in the past, but I just feel like smacking these people around again.
So here's what they had to say to us a while back:
"Health Canada is advising Canadians not to purchase or use electronic smoking products, as these products may pose health risks and have not been fully evaluated for safety, quality and efficacy by Health Canada."
Clearly we are dealing with idiots here. So what they are saying is, in effect, that they do not advise people to substitute the smoking of cigarettes because they have not bothered to fully evaluate the safety of them. However, they very obviously have evaluated the safety of the products that these people currently use, which is smoking tobacco.
Does anyone seriously think that vaping could possibly present more health risks than smoking tobacco? Is vaping really all that different from nicotine inhalers which they have no problem with?
The main problem here would appear to be that they are confused about the relative nature of this question. It truly is smoking versus vaping here. So if someone who had never smoked were to look to HC to recommend whether they do this or not, then it would make sense for HC to say to them, well we don't recommend it because we haven't evaluated the risks (and have no interest in doing so).
If someone who smoked tobacco asked them whether they should consider vaping instead, which in reality is always the case, then the answer needs to be a different one. So they need to rework this statement:
Health Canada has not evaluated the safety of electronic cigarettes, so those who choose to use them do so at their own risk and without our specific recommendation. However, there is good reason to believe that they may be far less harmful than tobacco smoking, as has been found to be the case with other nicotine replacement therapies.
Perhaps if and when e-cigarette companies provide us with a lot of funds, otherwise known as bribes, we will change our position here, unless of course we encounter another whistle blower like we did with the case of our approving hormones being given to cows causing pus in our milk, which we had to rethink when the large sum of money we were given by the company seeking approval was made public.
We wish to also state that just because we are called Health Canada, our mandate is clearly not to protect the health interests of Canadians, but to instead promote the efficient commerce of those companies whose interests we are concerned with. This is why, for example, we promote toxic waste such as fluoride in our water, and even recommend it be given to babies, in spite of the clear scientific evidence pointing to its harmfulness.
So we're not concerned about safety at all, to be perfectly honest, we only care about protecting the interests of big business. So we are very eager to ban certain supplements, for instance, which have been approved by the FDA, as that means that big pharma has been even more effective up here in lobbying us to keep people unhealthy and keep them on their expensive drugs.
So go ahead and continue to smoke, which is the patriotic thing to do as a Canadian, since you are supporting our government, and also saving us money in health care costs as well by dying off sooner. If your lobby, the e-cigarette market., can ever come up with the grist money that the big boys pay, well perhaps then we will consider allowing your merchandise to be sold in stores, provided that they are mass marketed, low quality, and heavily taxed. Don't cross your fingers on this one though.
So here's what they had to say to us a while back:
"Health Canada is advising Canadians not to purchase or use electronic smoking products, as these products may pose health risks and have not been fully evaluated for safety, quality and efficacy by Health Canada."
Clearly we are dealing with idiots here. So what they are saying is, in effect, that they do not advise people to substitute the smoking of cigarettes because they have not bothered to fully evaluate the safety of them. However, they very obviously have evaluated the safety of the products that these people currently use, which is smoking tobacco.
Does anyone seriously think that vaping could possibly present more health risks than smoking tobacco? Is vaping really all that different from nicotine inhalers which they have no problem with?
The main problem here would appear to be that they are confused about the relative nature of this question. It truly is smoking versus vaping here. So if someone who had never smoked were to look to HC to recommend whether they do this or not, then it would make sense for HC to say to them, well we don't recommend it because we haven't evaluated the risks (and have no interest in doing so).
If someone who smoked tobacco asked them whether they should consider vaping instead, which in reality is always the case, then the answer needs to be a different one. So they need to rework this statement:
Health Canada has not evaluated the safety of electronic cigarettes, so those who choose to use them do so at their own risk and without our specific recommendation. However, there is good reason to believe that they may be far less harmful than tobacco smoking, as has been found to be the case with other nicotine replacement therapies.
Perhaps if and when e-cigarette companies provide us with a lot of funds, otherwise known as bribes, we will change our position here, unless of course we encounter another whistle blower like we did with the case of our approving hormones being given to cows causing pus in our milk, which we had to rethink when the large sum of money we were given by the company seeking approval was made public.
We wish to also state that just because we are called Health Canada, our mandate is clearly not to protect the health interests of Canadians, but to instead promote the efficient commerce of those companies whose interests we are concerned with. This is why, for example, we promote toxic waste such as fluoride in our water, and even recommend it be given to babies, in spite of the clear scientific evidence pointing to its harmfulness.
So we're not concerned about safety at all, to be perfectly honest, we only care about protecting the interests of big business. So we are very eager to ban certain supplements, for instance, which have been approved by the FDA, as that means that big pharma has been even more effective up here in lobbying us to keep people unhealthy and keep them on their expensive drugs.
So go ahead and continue to smoke, which is the patriotic thing to do as a Canadian, since you are supporting our government, and also saving us money in health care costs as well by dying off sooner. If your lobby, the e-cigarette market., can ever come up with the grist money that the big boys pay, well perhaps then we will consider allowing your merchandise to be sold in stores, provided that they are mass marketed, low quality, and heavily taxed. Don't cross your fingers on this one though.
