Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said she and representatives from a number of anti-smoking organizations met this week with a senior staff member for Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks.
“We left the meeting with the firm belief that we are not going to see a ban on vaping flavours this year,” she said. “We are greatly disappointed.”
Callard said the official gave a range of logistical reasons for why the restrictions weren’t going ahead — including the limited time left to enact them as the Liberal government stares down a potential spring election.
For the pods it should be the same as Alchohol containers. Have a deposit payed when they are bought and be able to be returned to get the deposit back. Like if you pay a dollar extra per disposal pod you should be able to return them to a waste facility to get that money back.
No idea, but I’m talking about stuff like this:
That’s what I collected at a community cleanup, from one tiny spot of a much larger public area I was at.
If those aren’t for vaping, then we should still punish the assholes who are throwing them all over the ground!
Most of those are probably prerolled joint tubes
Yup they’re all pre-rolled joint tubes from a gov-regulated weed store in Ontario
Punishment won’t work, same with regular littering. There is a fine but there should be incentive to dispose of them correctly.
I’d be totally fine if these things required a $100 deposit, which is returned when the user sends it back to where they got it from. Regardless if it’s an incentive, fine, or jail, these things are a disaster for communities and wildlife.
There are better ways to vape. There’s no need for that disposable plastic shit to exist at all.