The New Brunswick Lung Association supports changes coming with the passing of Bill S-5, new legislation that will ban the sale of vaping products to anyone under the age of 18.
It also bans the promotion of vaping to products to young people or children by using dessert or candy flavours in vaping liquids.
Barbara Walls, the director of health promotion with the New Brunswick Lung Association, says they’re enthusiastic about any progress they make with the provincial or federal government.
“What we’re up against a legalized addiction and they [companies] have a lot more money than we do. When we can make strides, or we can change things, this is good.”
Bill S-5 has received Royal Assent and is now law! This important legislation will ensure Canada is a world leader in the fight against tobacco – making these products less appealing to youth with plain packaging and setting out new rules surrounding vaping. #S5 pic.twitter.com/tKCalNNwz9
— Ginette Petitpas Taylor (@GPTaylorMRD) May 23, 2018
Walls says mandating the plain and standardized packaging and increasing the health warnings are really significant steps especially when it comes to protecting youth.
She says when you smoke a tobacco product, you are inhaling 5,000 chemicals, 50 of which are carcinogenic.
