David Clement: Banning flavoured vapes harms adults and does little for youth
· National Post
Five years is a very long time to announce a policy and not implement it, but Ottawa's promised ban on flavoured vapes has now outlasted a health minister, a pandemic, and several news cycles' worth of moral alarm. The Globe and Mail weighed in with an editorial on Monday insisting that the government's stalling has gone on far too long. The case leans on frightening figures about the young, warnings that vaping leads kids to smoking, and a study of secret shoppers said to prove retailers cannot be trusted. It is, on its face, an argument built to alarm rather than to inform, and it collapses the moment one bothers to check the footnotes. Read More
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