The article by NBMA titled "Doctors satisfied with new restrictions on e-cigarette products" states that doctors welcome the restrictions on e-cigarette products like other health organizations. However, local doctor Dr. John Oyston MB BS, BMedSci, FRCA, FRCP (C) explained in response to the press release why he believes that the flavor ban would harm public health.
A letter has been sent to the NBMA, the Canadian Cancer Society, the New Brunswick Lung Association, and Dr. Kerrie Luck and former president of the New Brunswick Medical Society Jeff Steeves, explaining that a flavor ban may lead to an increase in tobacco-related deaths and black market activities.
As a physician who has witnessed the diseases, disabilities and deaths caused by smoking, I urge intervention and oppose the ban on e-cigarette flavors, as this may increase the number of deaths caused by smoking.
I understand your concerns about the appeal of e-cigarettes to young people, but banning flavors is not an effective solution to this problem. There are many reasons why young people use e-cigarettes, and in most studies, flavor is the third most common reason after peer pressure and curiosity. While it is true that over 90% of young e-cigarette users use flavored e-cigarettes, this does not mean that banning flavors will decrease e-cigarette usage by 90%. Over 90% of car drivers drive colored cars. If car colors were banned and all cars were only natural metal colors, how many people would stop driving? Strictly enforcing existing laws that prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors is more meaningful than enacting new laws.
Alcohol poses a much greater harm to young people than electronic cigarettes, as its flavor is particularly appealing to them. However, no one suggests that we strip adult drinkers of the pleasure of consuming grape, beer, and fruit-flavored alcoholic drinks in order to reduce youth drinking. Flavor bans make electronic cigarettes less popular among young people and adults trying to quit smoking. Smokers use electronic cigarettes because they want to avoid the smell and toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, and those who use tobacco-flavored electronic cigarettes are more likely to relapse and resume smoking. Allowing smokers to use tobacco-flavored electronic cigarettes is like insisting that alcoholics take whiskey-flavored medication.
What you are referring to is protecting young people from lung damage. Please remember that 'EVALI' was not caused by nicotine e-cigarettes purchased from stores, but rather by the consumption of black market THC products. Banning legal flavors will only encourage dangerous black market flavors. Research has shown that for the past three years, individuals who use e-cigarettes have not experienced lung damage. In fact, switching to e-cigarettes can make it easier for smokers to breathe and go further.
Smoking is five to twenty times more dangerous than vaping. According to Sonia Johnson, Director General of Health Canada, no Canadians have died from using electronic cigarettes, while 120 Canadians die from smoking every day. If flavor bans prevent four teenagers from vaping but also prevent one adult smoker from quitting, the overall effect is negative.
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