Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said she and representatives from a number of anti-smoking organizations met this week with a senior staff member for Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks.

“We left the meeting with the firm belief that we are not going to see a ban on vaping flavours this year,” she said. “We are greatly disappointed.”

Callard said the official gave a range of logistical reasons for why the restrictions weren’t going ahead — including the limited time left to enact them as the Liberal government stares down a potential spring election.

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    For the pods it should be the same as Alchohol containers. Have a deposit payed when they are bought and be able to be returned to get the deposit back. Like if you pay a dollar extra per disposal pod you should be able to return them to a waste facility to get that money back.

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      There are better ways to vape. There’s no need for that disposable plastic shit to exist at all.

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      No idea, but I’m talking about stuff like this:

      That’s what I collected at a community cleanup, from one tiny spot of a much larger public area I was at.

      If those aren’t for vaping, then we should still punish the assholes who are throwing them all over the ground!