In December 2020, Health Canada proposed to limit the nicotine content of all smoking products to 20 milligrams per milliliter (mg/ml). This proposal is in response to a flawed paper published in the BMJ, which concluded that in Canada, there has been an increase in youth drug use and subsequent smoking. Although nearly a year later, the inaccuracies in the study were acknowledged and the journal issued corrections, the Canadian authorities did not change their course accordingly.

The new restrictions came into effect on July 8, and also include a regulation that prohibits Canadian manufacturers from exporting products with a nicotine concentration greater than 66 mg/ml. In addition, a recent press release issued by the Canadian Electronic Cigarette Association (CVA) indicated that the Canadian government has proposed a ban on e-cigarette flavors other than tobacco, mint and mint.

> Another article published by public health expert Clive Bates shared pending recommendations. Among them are the regulatory impact analysis statement, cost-benefit analysis and related regulations issued by Health Canada.

Based on actual data from places where such measures have been implemented, Bates emphasized that this is the closest approach that the authorities can get without completely banning safer alternatives to cigarettes. The possible effect is obvious: there is more smoking. However, in the strange distortion of reality and evidence, Health Canada still chose to implement this measure.

Young adults are quitting smoking, thanks to e-cigarette smoking. Bates and three other well-known experts in the field of tobacco harm reduction responded to the submissions of Health Canada. At the same time, statistics recently released by Statistics Canada show that Canadians in their 20s are actually quitting smoking at an unprecedented rate due to smoking e-cigarettes.

The Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey shows that between 2019 and 2020, the smoking rate in this particular age group has dropped by 40%, from 13.3% to 8%. This number makes Health Canada's smoke-free target (5% by 2035) seem achievable. In addition, this 5% target rate has already been reached among 15-19 year-olds.

Ian Owen, a professor of economics at Concordia University and a researcher at the C.D. Howe Institute, said in a letter to Health Secretary Patty Hajdu that it is shameful for the media to report selectively. "Unfortunately, these achievements have been largely ignored by a media, and this media, in most cases, has always stuck to the concept of smoking prevalence among people of these ages."

Owen emphasized that although smoking rates have been declining due to the government's tobacco policy, the real change occurred when e-cigarette products arrived on the scene. "By 2013, the smoking rate among people aged 15-19 had dropped to 11%, that of people aged 20-24 had dropped to 18%, and that of people aged 25 and over had dropped to about 16%, and then a subversive Technology broke into people's field of vision-electronic cigarettes

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