CANADA’S FLAVOURED TOBACCO BAN DRAWS GLOBAL CRITICISM
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM
CANADA - long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector - became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.
The legislation, passed last year in a federal government bill C-32 is a comprehensive affair. While the ban (written as amendments to the federal Tobacco Act) allows menthol flavoured products, the tobacco industry's hands are tied when it comes to using most flavouring and colouring additives in Canada-bound ...
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