Health committee  These are all packages available in Canada.

Health committee  They're both. These are all cigarettes that are available on the legal market. I brought them as examples of how the industry is able to skirt what they claim to be very tight packaging restrictions, and as an argument in favour of plain and standardized packaging. Without that v

Health committee  This is cannabis, this is tobacco. I'm sorry for the confusion.

Health committee  Can I add to that very briefly? The current restrictions are woefully inadequate for tobacco. As Dr. Hammond said, this is what—

Health committee  The wording is the same as in the Tobacco Act currently. This is why it doesn't work: because Health Canada has shown itself loath to police. We have a requirement in Canada of 75% graphic warnings, and this is the kind of package that the tobacco companies have come out with.

Health committee  Comprehensive wording to ensure that there are no logos, no branding elements, only a brand name.

Health committee  Just a brand name and required information.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, honourable members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. As you heard, my name is Melodie Tilson. I'm the director of policy with the Non-Smokers' Rights Association. With me is our senior policy analyst, Pippa Beck. Together

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. In fact, we have a free giveaway of e-cigarettes happening here in Ottawa as well. What we're trying to do is what my colleague just emphasized. We want to make sure that e-cigarettes are available as safely as possible to smokers who want to quit, but not avai

Health committee  Yes, absolutely.

Health committee  Yes. We've said that the use of e-cigarettes should be banned in all indoor public places and workplaces where smoking is banned, as well as outdoors on school grounds. Again, that's about not normalizing the use of these products for youth. Not only are we concerned that they co

Health committee  Yes. There's another reason to allow e-cigarettes without nicotine but include them in the same regulatory framework. We hear from smokers who have successfully used e-cigarettes to quit that they often step down the level of nicotine that they use, to the point where they're u

Health committee  We know that e-cigarettes with nicotine are less addictive than cigarettes because they don't deliver nicotine to the brain as quickly as a cigarette does through the smoke, and most devices don't deliver as much nicotine. They are less addictive than cigarettes, but yes, they de

Health committee  If I could, I would like to add something quickly. We don't know whether experimentation with e-cigarettes will lead more youth to go on to use cigarettes. We don't know whether it will introduce them to nicotine, which will then lead them to transition to the most effective nico

Health committee  Perhaps I could add that in the U.S. and other foreign magazines that are sold in Canada, you can see some of that advertising as well.