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Sweanor: Ontario's vaping policy: Did smoke get in their eyes?
The first two paragraphs below.
"Recently, the Ontario government announced its intention to treat vaping the same as cigarette-smoking. If this strikes you as being as dumb as treating clean needles like dirty ones, or safe sex the same as the unprotected variety, you have grasped the problem with the plan.
Well, actually, its dumber. What they are doing will protect well-established and well-heeled cigarette companies, giving them a big competitive advantage over the upstart vaping products. After all, smokers don’t need to learn what cigarettes are, or be taught how to use them. But many need to learn to vape and determine which combination of device and liquid is right for them in order to quit smoking, and the proposed rules prohibit the testing or sampling of such products. So they will make quitting that much harder."
The first two paragraphs below.
"Recently, the Ontario government announced its intention to treat vaping the same as cigarette-smoking. If this strikes you as being as dumb as treating clean needles like dirty ones, or safe sex the same as the unprotected variety, you have grasped the problem with the plan.
Well, actually, its dumber. What they are doing will protect well-established and well-heeled cigarette companies, giving them a big competitive advantage over the upstart vaping products. After all, smokers don’t need to learn what cigarettes are, or be taught how to use them. But many need to learn to vape and determine which combination of device and liquid is right for them in order to quit smoking, and the proposed rules prohibit the testing or sampling of such products. So they will make quitting that much harder."
