Health committee  Good morning to the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on electronic nicotine delivery systems, ENDS. I'll explain that term in a second. I'm speaking in my role as the chief public health officer and chief medical officer of health for the Nova Scotia Depa

Health committee  I think it's twofold. We know from a lot of focus group testing over the years that the impact of the current health warnings has greatly faded. As it is with any product, Nike doesn't sit and use the same advertising for 10 years. If this is going to be effective, we need to c

Health committee  I'm going to defer that question to Mr. Machat, who was directly involved in those discussions.

Health committee  That's certainly an issue they have raised. In the health community, contraband is one of a number of issues. As I said in my remarks, tobacco control, to be effective, requires a multi-faceted approach. While we need to be paying attention to contraband, we need to be paying att

Health committee  Certainly. Part of the whole proposal around renewing health warning labels was the development of a single quit line. There are now a number of quit lines out there in different jurisdictions. It would be much more efficient and effective if we had one single quit line that was

Health committee  I agree that I have an ethical obligation as a health care professional. My remarks were actually that I have a professional and a legal responsibility. The Health Protection Act in Nova Scotia makes me accountable for taking action to protect the health of Nova Scotians. My prof

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the committee for the invitation to appear today on this very important public health matter to Nova Scotians and to all Canadians. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge my colleague, Steve Machat, manager of tobacco control for th