Ban selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2008, Ottawa Public Health urges Health Canada
The agency has produced a series of recommendations on a review of the federal Tobacco and Vaping Products Act.
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They should ban smoking cannabis, too. It's just as bad. Produces tar in the lungs and can cause lung, throat and mouth cancer as well. And because it dilates the bronches, it goes in deeper.
Honestly if they do that people will fall back to contraband. And that's worse.
And I love having the occasional cigar. (Like a couple of times a year) There's very little harm in that.
Edit: you know there are other ways to consume cannabis than to smoke it, right?
Cannabis has potential medical applications in areas like pain management. Tobacco has none that I'm aware of—its only legitimate use is in the ceremonies of some Indigenous peoples.
So, given that one is useful and the other useless, why do you want us to get rid of the useful one?
Yes. I'm a frequent user. But I don't smoke it. I use oils or edibles. There are other ways to consume cannabis than by smoking it.
I don't care if people down vote me for this. Smoking anything has big potential cancer risks and that's a fact.
Nicotine outside of its addictiveness does have perks. It does assist with anxiety and makes you more aware which is said to make you remember things better. They aren't advertised often because the downsides of smoking cigarettes outweigh them usually.
I would argue that if they were trying to make it about health, edibles and such may reduce lung and other impacts by cannabis but only time will tell in studies.
The law just seems strange to me to say, we vote ban smoking cigarettes (pre-rolled) for those who can't vote and have no say, but we keep that privilege for ourselves. Also no changes to rules about smoking around those people.
Either make the rules for everyone or no one.