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Health Canada is “missing in action” on the regulation of e-cigarette flavours in Canada as youth vaping rates rise, health advocates say, and at a time when the vaping industry is expanding into highly addictive new devices that experts warn appeal directly to kids.
The federal government sounded the alarm in June 2021 over a “rapid increase in youth vaping in Canada” and proposed changes to the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act to regulate