Would Health Canada rigerously enforce air quality and pollution?

[kalvinf]

I'm a new vaper and very grateful to finally have an alternative to tobacco and with HC attacking the e-cigarette industry just as I find this excellent alternative makes me fume (sry about the pun).

I live in Hamilton which is probably the worst polluted air in the country with large tracks of real estate in the north end used by many industries large and small belting out high numbers of cubic meters of harmful pollutants.



These pics give a good visual but you have to live here to understand the full impact of detrimental air pollution. When my kids were younger I was concerned about the percent content of air pollutants but the only answer I could get for measured air content was the heavy metal concentrations that eventually fell to the gound and what those concentrations were.

So, there is no exact breakdown of the chemicals we breathe daily in Hamilton - we just know it is very bad for us. Add in all that auto exhaust and freeway traffic and air blowing up from the US.

Here's the thing; HC sees its push to get rid of e-cigarettes and juices as protecting Canadians but would HC put the same energy into protecting young and old (yeah children breathe the toxic air in Hamilton too, infants even) from known health risks of air pollutants?

Answer is; no they wouldn't and it probably isn't on any active agenda at HC.

It comes down to being an absurdity really. I can control what I put into my lungs with not smoking tobacco and chosing to use personal vaping devices but I can't control the air pollutants that I breathe and it is up to goverment to do something for its citizens for healthy clean air.

Maybe this is ranting, I hope not. Just adding a perspective to the ongoing HC vs vaping community struggle from the vantage point of living in local adverse air pollution.

 

[Kams Cats]

I understand how you feel. I live in Sarnia. They have randomly tested residents here and found a toxic stew of chemicals in our systems. Asbestosis and melothesioma are considered natural deaths. I don't see HC stepping in to save any of us.

 

[JayTheVapingGuy]

DAMNIT!!! thats the fork for the silver tongued devil...

we need to point out not just that HC is illegally taking action against vaping, but show how absurd their "cause" is, when there are more important things for them to be focusing on...\

"why are our tax dollars funding breaking down mom and pop companies that are working to improve peoples health, even if unverified, when there are tons of polutants being pumped into the air by companies in towns like sarnia and hamiliton??"

or something to that effect!!

 

[kalvinf]

Yeah that may be a good staple part of a standard civil suit Jay. Even if it sounds like the Kyoto accord as an argument it maybe be necessary to include it.

Maybe it would go towards clearly showing what falls under personal choice and what falls under goverment control, especially if the government or HC looks the other way when it comes to factory pollutants.

There may be a possiblity too where the government allows these pollutants from manufacturing without any extensive studies to know what the pollutants are or what the long term effects are on the population.