Anti-tobacco groups call for MPs to clamp down on vaping advertising rules

Ian Culbert, executive director of the Canadian Public Health Association, also at Monday’s news conference, said that if Bill S-5 received royal assent today, Canada would become “one of most permissive jurisdictions in the world with regard to advertising vaping devices.”

“We do want nicotine containing vaping devices to be available to smokers. They are, or can be, an important part of a harm reduction strategy. But we don’t want to create another generation of young people addicted to nicotine by allowing no controls on the location of ads and few meaningful controls on content,” he said.