Following the decision of the Superior Court of Quebec invalidate certain articles of law on the vape, several voices including those of the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control and Canadian Cancer Society were heard to push the government to appeal the judgment. In this context, The Quebec Association of Vapoteries proposes a statement to respond to his attacks on vaping.
VAPOTAGE, A STATUS WHICH AGAINST PRODUCTIVITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TOBACCO
There you go! It's back for a new offensive against vaping! At least, that's what suggests Flory Doucas, from the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control, in its latest article inviting the government to appeal the judgment filed by the Superior Court of Quebec. Wanting to attack tobacco, seeking to ensure that all non-smokers are kept away from tobacco, and keeping young people away from tobacco is fundamental and commendable. But now, vaping is not smoking. Vaping products are not tobacco. With all due respect to the coalition, the Honorable Judge Dumais mentioned in his judgment, “it seems justified that we do not associate an electronic cigarette with tobacco or one of its products. We want to avoid confusing them with the public. And as soon as the judgment is out, we try again to confuse them with the public.
I repeat, the original sin of the vapoteuse will have been to bear the name of “electronic cigarette”. Since that day, the amalgam has not ceased to be done even in the laws and the fears founded towards the tobacco are transposed on this new product which wants to be in the facts; an alternative. Tobacco causes cancer, it is well known. All the fear argument presented and relayed in the media finds echo in the population because we probably all know from near or far a person having died of cancer or having suffered since this scourge kills 1 in 2 people. This represents more than 10.000 deaths each year in Quebec. But now, the main reason behind this technological innovation is to save lives by keeping smokers away from tobacco. Let the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control attack the tobacco industry, so much the better! But when this same coalition attacks an industry bent on tackling the tobacco scourge, there is a problem, an inconsistency, an obvious paradox.
In addition, if the real concern is about vaping in young people, the Quebec Association of vapoteries wishes to repeat, insist and loudly proclaim that it complies with the laws in force regarding the ban on sales to minors. 
The specialized shops behind the recent trial are run and operated by honest entrepreneurs who have families, children and teenagers. These owners, all ex-smokers, started their business with the primary mission of helping their fellow smokers discover the alternative that worked for them. And in doing so, when ex-smokers go into business, hundreds of jobs are created, millions in taxes collected and returned to the state, and countless lives saved.
In his judgment, the Honorable Justice Dumais, highlights the effect of the drastic measures put in place on the vaping industry which go against smokers who want to learn about this alternative. We cannot thus violate the rights and freedoms of these citizens as a precautionary principle. There has to be a real danger. However, he names vaping and clearly says that it is not a danger to the same extent as tobacco. During the trial, the comments of Dr. Juneau and Poirier of the Association des cardiologues du Québec were reported:
« This is not the first time that an alternative nicotine product has raised controversy in this way. As part of our medical practice, as soon as they arrived on the market, doctors were opposed to the use of nicotine patches because they believed them to be dangerous for health. Unfortunately, all the bad media coverage of electronic cigarettes has the effect of discouraging many smokers from thinking that electronic cigarettes are a valid and safer alternative for their health, which is a shame. Faced with this new product, we would like the Quebec government to adopt a position advocating a public health approach favorable to risk reduction as proposed by public health in England instead of a more moral approach advocating complete abstinence from nicotine. »
The judgment is not intended to allow advertising to minors (the federal law already frames it), it simply restores the ability of the vaping industry to pass clear information to adult smokers on this subject and to show its products. The public is constantly exposed to nicotine patches or nicotine gum ads, why should vaping be put on the shelves? success en stop smoking are far superior to his competitors. The advertising rules for tobacco are not questioned here, the fact is that the vaping products are not tobacco, so consequently, the rules surrounding it must not be the same. The judgment rendered testifies while being at the same time very nuanced, and at the same time giving again finally a little freedom to an industry which has just crossed 4 years of abusive coercion.
In closing, the Association québécoise des vapoteries is reaching out to the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control so that it understands that we are not a tobacco product, and that we are fighting for the same goals. eliminate mortality related to this social scourge.
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