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===2021: Letter: [https://clivebates.com/documents/CanadaFlavourBanSept2021.pdf Proposed vaping products’ flavour regulations – a response]=== | |||
*This submission responds to Health Canada’s Consultation on Proposed vaping products’ flavour regulations and order and related regulatory impact analysis. | |||
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===2021: Letter: [https://clivebates.com/documents/NLFlavoursResponseJan2021.pdf Regulation of e-cigarette flavours – a response]=== | |||
*This document responds to the proposed Decree of the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport on the regulation of e-cigarette flavours in the Netherlands. We provide a summary followed by a detailed discussion of each of the twelve sections in the summary. | |||
===2021 Blog: [http://mommavape.blogspot.com/2021/06/gummy-bears-and-cotton-candy.html Gummy Bears and Cotton Candy]=== | |||
*The voice of consumers who are trying to quit smoking continues to be ignored. The use of flavored e-cigarettes was associated with more than twice the odds of smoking cessation among adult users compared to those using tobacco flavors. History demonstrates the adult love of all things candy. If something candy flavored is what helps someone stop smoking, who are we to tell them they can't quit that way? | |||
===2019 Blog: [https://clivebates.com/the-us-vaping-flavour-ban-twenty-things-you-should-know/ The US vaping flavour ban: twenty things you should know]=== | |||
*What is the chance that this level of adult panic is, in fact, driving the very behaviour it is worrying about? | |||
===2017 Blog: [http://mommavape.blogspot.com/2017/05/cotton-candy-is-not-marketing-to-kids.html Cotton Candy is NOT Marketing To Kids]=== <!--T:8--> | |||
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*She says "honey, you need to get with the program, we were too poor when I was a kid to afford cotton candy, so now I'm having it whenever I want and any way I want it. Now give me the sweetest thing you got and I want cotton candy the next time I come here." | *She says "honey, you need to get with the program, we were too poor when I was a kid to afford cotton candy, so now I'm having it whenever I want and any way I want it. Now give me the sweetest thing you got and I want cotton candy the next time I come here." | ||
*"Ma'am, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?". She looks at me and says "82, I quit smoking 6 months ago and now I'm going to live to be 102." | *"Ma'am, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?". She looks at me and says "82, I quit smoking 6 months ago and now I'm going to live to be 102." | ||
===2017 Blog: [https://clivebates.com/flavors Are e-liquid flavours really “hooking another generation of kids”?]=== | |||
*To evaluate the demand to regulate these flavours (by which they mean ban them) you first need a framework for thinking about the issue – and that is not simple and may yield surprises. | |||
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