{"id":17164,"date":"2022-01-24T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17164"},"modified":"2022-01-24T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:46:18","slug":"geoff-russ-vaping-regulations-are-all-about-protecting-tobacco-tax-revenues-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17164","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Russ: Vaping regulations are all about protecting tobacco tax revenues | National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The federal and provincial governments love the revenue that tobacco brings them, and will fight to protect it \u2014 even if it means higher rates of smoking and\u2026<\/p>\n

Source: Geoff Russ: Vaping regulations are all about protecting tobacco tax revenues | National Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Going t obe pretty hard top equate nicotine in vapes to cigs.<\/p>\n

“Vapour flavoured products like strawberry and ice cream give young people the false impression that vaping is harmless when it is every bit as habit-forming as smoking,\u201d said<\/a> Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman last April. His comments reveal that the habit, not the health effects, is the new justification for heightened taxes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The federal and provincial governments love the revenue that tobacco brings them,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,312,400,850],"class_list":["post-17164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-nicotine","tag-taxes","tag-vaping","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}