Health committee  We wish for e-cigarettes to be brought under the same regulatory framework, and/or for some specific regulation to be put into place, whether they do contain nicotine or not. Even if this device is said to contain no nicotine, the fact that it looks and acts like a cigarette, is

Health committee  It's 28% in general in our latest survey, and 20% among non-smokers.

Health committee  If we look at the uptake of tobacco products, both cigarettes and other tobacco products—and that's very important, because the way that tobacco is consumed is not the same anymore—in the last two or three years, we have not seen a significant slowing down in any province.

Health committee  Well, that's why I've been saying that at the very least in the youth age group, we have not seen e-cigarettes take the place of another tobacco product. We are seeing youth experiment with various products, whether they are a small flavoured cigar, or menthol cigarettes, or flav

Health committee  First of all, it's difficult to say. The safest way of consuming nicotine would be, technically, to consume no nicotine. Any product generally carries a risk. Obviously the cessation methods we have now are far from perfect. The best studies we have on e-cigarettes show that the

Health committee  That's why I say that it's a very heterogeneous kind of category. It's hard to say that there is an electronic cigarette. There are multiple electronic cigarettes. When the WHO report was written, they looked at what was on the market at that moment. They found 466 different devi

Health committee  Unfortunately, in a real-life setting, the only thing you can do is survey young people to see in what percentage they are using cigarillos versus e-cigarettes versus cigarettes versus menthol cigarettes versus none at all. What we have seen is that there is a very high rate of

Health committee  We definitely think that both nicotine and nicotine-free e-cigarettes should be available on the market and be legal, but standards should be set and enforced because of the very obvious labelling issues that we see right now where products might say that they have a certain amou

Health committee  We know that all main cigarette makers have an electronic cigarette brand right now, and they are all widely available and sold. As far as which percentage of the e-cigarettes that are sold pertain to the tobacco industry, I do not have this number, but that's something I could a

Health committee  As far as advertising is concerned, we'd like it to be brought in line with the current legislation on tobacco.

Health committee  It's slightly more complicated than that, the way it's written in the law. Generally it bans most advertising and certainly all advertising that could appeal to youth and would have a young person in it and would make some lifestyle advertisement or would make unsubstantiated hea

Health committee  No, those ads were from the U.K. and the U.S. mainly, but they're also widely circulated on the Internet. There's also a significant amount of advertising being done on Facebook via websites, via contests, and also on the radio, and that is happening and being seen by people in C

Health committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present today. My name is Geneviève Bois, and I'm a physician by training. I work for the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control as a spokesperson. The issue of e-cigarettes is definitely one that needs an urgent regulatory framework. I think you