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And to the guys who decided to ignore yield sign on the circ by Main st.. yeah I called your place of employment after witnessing your road rage. The person who took my call was very interested in this incident and I will definitely follow up on it next week. Next time, don't act stupid on the road and drive directly to where your workplace has a big sign out front. —Tired of paying high ins. rates due to these fools
Health Canada cannot lawfully "authorize" or approve non-medicines as medicines. Doctors know this, as does Health Canada. Insisting that e-cigarettes are required to seek approval as something that they aren't (knowing full well that any such approval is impossible for Health Canada to ever grant) is ridiculous, unlawful, and puts Canadians at greater risk. The deception works to deter smokers from switching to vaping, and works to delay the e-cig industry from understanding and following applicable laws and regulations.
E-cigarettes are not tobacco products. E-cigarettes (with or without nicotine) contain no tobacco and produce no smoke. They are not tobacco products, and cannot be regulated as tobacco in Canada. The federal Tobacco Act exempts e-cigarette products with nicotine from being classed as tobacco. Canadian law already regulates e-cigarettes. Popular myth says that e-cigarettes with nicotine are "illegal" or "banned" in Canada, and remain unregulated. Yet according to Canadian law, these products are legal and regulated. Canadian law says that e-cig hardware items are regulated as consumer products, and that e-liquid with nicotine (the liquid vaporized by an e-cigarette) is regulated as a consumer chemical product under the Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001. The government is simply not admitting this fact or enforcing these regulations.
Smoking kills. E-cigarettes do not. E-cigarettes with nicotine have not been scientifically demonstrated to be any more harmful than typical caffeine consumption.
Globally, smoking kills approximately six million people every year. E-cigarette use has never demonstrably killed anyone. To date there is no credible scientific evidence to suggest (let alone demonstrate) that e-cigarettes will ever kill anyone when used as intended.
Health Canada is lying about which laws apply. For years, Health Canada has provably misled Canadians about the regulatory requirements for e-cigarettes — and with reason. Billions of dollars are collected each year in tobacco-tax revenue alone. E-cigarettes present the gravest commercial threat to smoking the world has ever seen. The government is not eager to see the status quo change — even if it saves the lives of millions who would otherwise die from smoking. Anti-smoking groups (like Smoke Free Nova Scotia – funded by Health care dollars from the government and health authorities, Cancer Care Nova Scotia, Capital Health themselves, the Lung Association of Nova Scotia) want smokers to keep on smoking. Tobacco control has become a very lucrative gravy train for them, well-funded by big pharmaceutical companies and government. If vast numbers of Canadian smokers switch to e-cigarettes and no longer smoke, anti-smoking groups will soon have no further reason to exist. They are no more eager than Health Canada is to see smokers voluntarily switch in droves to an attractive, non-lethal consumer alternative to smoking.
Flavors in e-cigarettes are a deterrent to smoking, not a gateway to it. Smokers who switch to electronic cigarettes quickly realize that, comparatively, cigarette smoke tastes disgusting. The wide variety of flavors available in e-cigarettes discourage a relapse to smoking. Why would anyone using an affordable, pleasantly flavored e-cigarette that is not killing them decide to switch to expensive, filthy-tasting real cigarettes which will kill them? "Gateway" fears are simply unfounded. —a vaper, no longer a smoker
Then to make matters worse, the police said they had more then enough evidence to press charges (my Moms statement and injuries, 2 other members who saw the assault and left their contact info for the police because they WANTED to give a statement, and multiple other employees who witnessed it) all of a sudden changed their tune saying they didn't feel comfortable pressing charges under the circumstances, which is that the guy has no record. So there you go Halifax. No criminal record? Bad day?? GO ASSAULT SOMEONE! —Fed up Haligolian
That is a summary of the qualifications you'll need before even thinking of applying for any kind of job in Halifax. Maybe you can add "good strong back" to that list for this winter, for those of you who feel like breaking your back making a pitiful $12/hr shovelling snow at any given time. On top of it all, the internet job classifieds are saturated with low-life scammers. There are more people looking for work than there are jobs available, and yes it's true, it is often only about who you know. I think I'm breaking up with you, Halifax. —lotstooffer