What has Health Canada done in last 2 years?

[sit.happens]

I was just looking at the HC website. A search query comes up with a March 27, 2009 press release. "Health Canada Advises Canadians Not to Use Electronic Cigarettes"

It's now April 2011. My question, what has HC done in the last two years? Have the done any testing on their own? Has there been any clinical trials? Have they contacted anyone in the vaping community or general public for interviews or testing to evaluate the effects of e-cigs on people. And if so, where are the reports or press releases? I can't find anything, can anybody else?

As a public institution, who I would have to suppose is mandated to serve the welfare and safety of Canadians. I have to ask, what have they been doing in the last 2 years! It might be a stretch to demand transparency, but HC needs to be held accountable for their actions, or lack thereof. As a vapor and taxpayer, I ask myself, what is my tax money being used for?

 

[IanK1968]

Health Canada has done nothing and will continue to do nothing, They are following the FDA and of course we know Canada cant think for itself so it has to rely on the USA. The longer they hold this out the more money Big Pharma and big tobacco make. So its in their best interest to prolong the inevitable.

 

[AlbertaClipper]

That's the thing that astounds me: FDA is continuously being shown that it cannot classify ecigs as drug delivery devices, so why does HC think it should? Dolts.

 

[Neon]

Dr carl Phillips from the University of Alberta was featured on a news report about e-cigs saying that he was responsible for testing them to see how safe they really are.

There are 7 videos on ecigarettedirect`s youtube channel that interview DR Phillips to see what the results were.

YouTube - ECigaretteDirect's Channel


This is a Canadian professor talking about the results of the testing.

Neon

 

[Zurd]

I ask myself the same question everyday. Health Canada institution is an hypocrite. They warn us not to use them, fine by me, but prove to me why, make some real scientific study about it and tell us. I guess they really have their hands tied with tobacco taxes and just can't do anything.

I wonder where they'll get their billions dollars tax of tobacco each year when ecigs will be more popular.

 

[Switched]

*SNIP

I wonder where they'll get their billions dollars tax of tobacco each year when ecigs will be more popular.

They will either outright outlaw them or tax them it is that simple.

Just like the government using tax increases to force people to quit (hypocrites). More people have quit due to tax increases than anything else, it is that loss of revenue that keeps taxes higher and higher. It has nothing to do with health.

Born free taxed to death!

 

[sit.happens]

I heard about Dr. Carl Phillips, But does he have any influence at Health Canada? I wonder if he knows what's happening lately in the vaping community?

 

[Can_supplier]

I heard about Dr. Carl Phillips, But does he have any influence at Health Canada?

No.

HC is not looking for answers anyhow. They are looking for a reasons, as reasons to stop e-cigs.

 

[zer0ith]

So just to play devils advocate here. HC has not publicly said anything about doing any testing on ecigs..... but (here is the long shot) for all we know they could be..... as unlikely as it seems.
Maybe they are just waiting for someone to either have some kind of issues develop from using ecigs (positive or negative).....

Has any other governments done any testing?

 

[IanK1968]

HC wont do any testing, Its up the the faculty of medicine at the UofT or some other wet lab who will conduct an independant research experiment. I cant see HC paying for a study that will show they are wrong.

 

[Can_supplier]

Has any other governments done any testing?

Yes, New Zealand. Result.. safe.. But common sense already told us that.

 

[IanK1968]

I think Boston University is also doing a study and so far they say e-cigs are a safer alternative.

 

[AlbertaClipper]

Who does the testing that approves tobacco...the testing that HC approves of? Just curious.

 

[IanK1968]

I think BT and BP have their own wet labs. They dont need to go outside to conduct tests. That also gives them carte blanc to doctor the results to suit them.

 

[Can_supplier]

Who does the testing that approves tobacco...the testing that HC approves of? Just curious.

No one test tobacco.. You wouldn't want to see the result of that..

Floating around on the net somewhere is disclosure from the tobacco companies of all the things they have added to tobacco. Its a phonebook of everything from eye of newt to salt and pepper. You can be sure NONE of those additives were tested to determine their effect when smoked.

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/643F3FB35E9EFBE7CA256F190004A474/$File/pm10.pdf

 

[AlbertaClipper]

Yet, if vapers test their stuff, we'd be told that those results aren't "objective" and thus not likely to be 'approved', amirite?

 

[IanK1968]

yup totally right

 

[lelly]

Who does the testing that approves tobacco...the testing that HC approves of? Just curious.

Why would they test it? HC and BT already acknowledge how aweful their product is, it already says so right on the front of every analog pack of cigarette sold in Canada, with pretty little pictures to illustrate their point. The more I think about it, the more disgusted I am that analogs are even legally sold. I mean really, HC needs to pick one side of the fence to stand on, either leave it up to us to use whatever products we want to live whatever quality of lifestyle, or ban anything that has the slightest chance of causing something negative to happen to us and those around us, we can all live in rooms padded with organic cotton, be served a silver platter HC approved slop 3 times a day.

 

[lelly]

Floating around on the net somewhere is disclosure from the tobacco companies of all the things they have added to tobacco. Its a phonebook of everything from eye of newt to salt and pepper. You can be sure NONE of those additives were tested to determine their effect when smoked.

I have never understand why they had to go and add anything to tobacco??

 

[IanK1968]

Tobacco with no additives is very bitter, like smoking an asprin. You would hate the taste, its gross. They have to calm down the bitter taste by adding chemicals and flavourings.