TORONTO — The Ford government is ignoring resounding advice from health agencies not to allow stores to display and advertise vaping products.
Such displays are allowed under the Progressive Conservatives’ overhaul of Bill 36, which governs legal cannabis sales.
Last week, six health groups testified at the legislative-committee-hearing submissions on Bill 36 about the risks to young people of vaping.
The Canadian Cancer Society, the Lung Association of Ontario, the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco, the Ontario Public Health Association, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation all called on the government to ban the display and promotion of vaping.
“The question is: Who is it that they are listening to?” she said. “Why is it that they’re more interested in listening to people who want to sell a product, rather than public health experts who say the way you sell this product needs to be carefully regulated to avoid health impacts for young people and children?”
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