Health committee I wouldn't have the information to answer that question. It is certainly the case that combustible marijuana, when consumed by smoking, has many of the kinds of dangerous constituents that you see in tobacco smoke, but I couldn't answer the question how it benchmarks against heat
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee As Bill S-5 is currently drafted, it would not allow that.
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee Thank you for the question. Happy to be able to clarify, or I hope I'll be able to clarify. In the existing Tobacco Act, clause 18(2), so section 18, or clause 18, or paragraph 18...whatever...section 18 is the start of the promotion section. It starts to say what sorts of promo
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee We do have the same language for vaping, by the way.
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee This whole section is all about promotion of tobacco products and it's not about scientific research on tobacco products. Nothing will stop people from doing research on the relative risks, if that's their interest, for tobacco products, publishing the results of that research, d
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee Sure thing. When we look at vaping products where we're confidently saying these products are less harmful than cigarettes, that's based on an emerging global consensus of science. The most recent U.S. National Academy of Sciences paper on this was an overview of 800 peer-reviewe
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee I'll go a little deeper in the hope of providing a bit of additional clarity. If we look at the definition of “tobacco product”, which is on page 2: It includes papers, tubes and filters intended for use with [products that are made of tobacco and] a device, other than a water
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee That would be in Bill C-45. It says the cannabis products are not subject to these.
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee Sure thing. No, cannabis products are not covered in this act. They are carved out. There's an amendment in here that puts one final little detail on making sure that those interfaces are correct, but no. Secondly, on heat sticks, yes. They are covered by the definition of toba
February 28th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon
Health committee We do take that very seriously. First of all, I would say, again, that we don't see any evidence that plain and standardized packaging contributes to the problem of illicit trade. This is what we hear from the other regulators who've moved down the way. We do see evidence that it
February 14th, 2018Committee meeting
James Van Loon