Ontario Canada to ban flavoured tobacco

briarhillgeoff · Nov 24, 2014

This could be a problem for us in Ontario who import........
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/11/24/ontario_bans_flavoured_tobacco_cracks_down_on_ecigarettes.html

mso489 · Nov 24, 2014

If I lived there I'd cultivate my taste (further) for non-aromatics. But of course, who knows what

legislators will target next. I've been spending time at a large research hospital accompanying my

wife through some surgery and tobacco is forbidden throughout, inside and out. I guess you can smoke

on the public sidewalk that runs past the building on a technicality. Of course, indoors, there are oxygen

tanks and volatile medicines, and no one should be smoking anyway. But no bench outdoors for puffers,

nay-nay-nay.

jmatt · Nov 24, 2014

I wonder, is Haddo's an aromatic tobacco? Is Frog Morton Cellar an aromatic tobacco? Are Lakeland tobacco's "aromatic?" Is any pipe tobacco with ANY topping an aromatic tobacco?
Or is NOTHING that is destined for use in a pipe "aromatic tobacco?"

northernneil · Nov 24, 2014

They have passed a similar law in Alberta, to take affect June 1, 2015. However, they have exempt menthol cigs, but everything else is fair game (chew, shisha and flavored cigars). There is however no mention of pipe tobacco, and when I asked my tobacconist, their response was until someone tells them to take something off the shelf, it will be business as usual.
All that being said, I have searched high and low for the official definition of "flavored tobacco" to no avail. Hopefully there is some kind of loop hole in this lack of clarity.

briarhillgeoff · Nov 24, 2014

This has nothing to do with Federal policy - it's only in Ontario - right now. They are using the e-cig flavoured vapour as a way to also ban menthol flavoured cigerattes and that's where the "flavoured tobacco ban" is causing me concern as we don't know what else they will include in that description. There's no extra tax being introduced - its a outright ban.

blueeyedogre · Nov 24, 2014

My understanding is that it is a very poorly thought out attempt to get rid of flavored cigarettes and cigar such as "Primetime" and "Blunts". Flavored cigarettes like Primetime are becoming very popular with younger people, I have seen on several occasions teenagers turned away at my local B+M trying to buy them. I honestly don't know how it will affect us pipe smokers but I'm hoping that since pipe smokers and pipe tobacco were overlooked in the writing of the law hopefully we'll be overlooked in the enforcing of it?

blueeyedogre · Nov 24, 2014

This has nothing to do with Federal policy - it's only in Ontario - right now.

Sadly what happens in the east has a bad habit of moving west.

okiescout · Nov 24, 2014

Gosh, maybe we could get a warning on the warning on ours already.
All I need, is for the government to look out for me, a little more. :rofl:

sw0snuff3r · Nov 24, 2014

This would be very difficult to enforce for mail order. The worst thing that could happen is that vendors will refuse to ship to Ontario. I'm going to start stocking up just in case, things are getting ridiculous here.

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