In February, Health Minister Adrian Dix banned the sale of nicotine pouches in convenience stores.
Polls suggest that 70 per cent of British Columbians are dissatisfied with the province’s efforts to tackle the health-care crisis. That matches opinions across the country. These small gauze-like pouches are held between gum and cheek. They contain no tobacco, and so are not pungent or bitter-tasting.
Following Dix’s order, they may now be sold only by pharmacies, and then only with proof the purchaser is 18 or over. Public health officials across the country are horrified. The evidence that nicotine products are addictive is overwhelming. Worse still, young people are most at risk, because the developing brain is vulnerable. Among the accompanying effects of nicotine consumption are mental health issues, loss of impulse control, diminished cognitive capacity, and sleep loss. There is also a greater risk of developing mouth and throat cancers.
Yet here, too, the long-term consequences are not known, although the aerosols they generate are carcinogenic.
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