Loosening Restrictions on Smoking-Related Products during Covid-19
Loosening Restrictions on Smoking-Related Products during Covid-19 likely to Slow Canada’s Efforts to Reduce Smoking to less than 5% by 2035
Hagen L, Schwartz R. Tobacco control and Canada’s endgame, Part I Commentary – Is “less than 5 by 35” still achievable? Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada Vol 41, No 10, October 2021
“There are no milestones, benchmarks, or tangible national plans beyond optimistic guidance documents. The federal government has never put forth an operational plan to achieve <5 by 35 [less than 5% prevalence by 2035]… Moreover, the legalization of nicotine vaping products and cannabis followed by the COVID-19 pandemic have created further delays and obstacles to substantive endgame action… The 2018 legalization of nicotine vaping products and their resulting mass promotions contributed to an explosive rise in youth vaping that governments and tobacco control stakeholders are desperately attempting to reverse engineer….”
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-41-no-10-2021/hpcdp-41-10-03-eng.pdf-
Stephen Hamann
