An open letter to the Quebec Minister of Health (and to the EU, WHO and other groups considering a vape flavour ban) To: Minister Christian DUBÉ Minister of Health, The National Assembly of Quebec ministre@msss.gouv.qc.ca, May 1st 2023 Dear Minister … Continue reading →
(Jan2022-April 2023) Lots of fine words, less action First, the good news: In a December 2022 press release, The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction and Associate Minister of Health, said: “Vaping products offer the 3.8 million … Continue reading →
Spongebobvape.com is an e-commerce site that sells disposable vapes modelled on a cartoon character and on cute animals. It can be accessed in Canada by Canadians using Canadian Internet service providers. It seems to break Canadian laws in that: … Continue reading →
A flawed study falsely stated that an increase in teen vaping was associated with an increase in teen smoking. The article was quietly corrected, but outraged headlines and calls for action are still highly visible on many websites without any … Continue reading →
ONE: Develop an empathetic approach to people who smoke. Most people who still smoke made a bad life choice when they were in their teens, before their brains were fully developed, thinking that they could quit smoking later. In middle … Continue reading →
The Dec 9th 2022 TVPA review pays lip service to the possibility that vaping may be a less harmful source of nicotine, and a pathway to quitting, for Canada’s 3.8m smokers, who are dying at the rate of 4,000 people every month but then goes on at great length about youth vaping. This article discusses the missed opportunities to use vaping to reduce smoking deaths.
Continue reading →ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that is being called the new Google. You can ask it a question, and it will search its knowledge base to produce a clear and well-written answer. If you are too lazy or in … Continue reading →
The WHO has announced that it is renaming monkeypox to “mpox”, apparently to avoid stigmatization of monkeys. They expedited the name change through the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) process. The CDC labelled an outbreak of lung injury in people … Continue reading →
This post uses the term “oral nicotine products” to refer both to traditional tobacco-based nicotine pouches like Swedish snus and to “modern oral” nicotine pouches that are tobacco-free. It excludes nicotine gum and lozenges. These products are designed to be … Continue reading →
The word “smoker” is a disparaging term, like “addict” or “alcoholic” and we should stop using it. It is no longer acceptable to talk of “the disabled”.as if they are one homogenous group of, perhaps, rather sub-human beings. Instead, we … Continue reading →
