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Stuffed toys are more regulated than tobacco!
Stuffed toys, along with thousands of other consumer products, are strictly regulated under the Hazardous Products Act. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are not. Yet tobacco products kill 37,000 Canadians every year. The tobacco lobby continues to succeed in ensuring that their products remain exempt from all laws that regulate toxic and hazardous products. Is it not time the government stopped giving the tobacco industry a free pass?
Additional Information from the Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue
A Canadian's perspective : limits of tobacco regulation
Sweanor, David.
William Mitchell Law Review. 34(4): 1595-1604. 2008. [Article]
Critically examines what has been accomplished through policy interventions in Canada and suggests that many policies have reached a limit on what can be done, or a state of greatly diminishing marginal returns. Tobacco control advocates need to consider the limits of regulations and look to new policy interventions that can lessen the remaining tobacco risks.
A proposal to regulate little cigars under the Tobacco (Access) Regulations : consultation paper
Canada. Health Canada. Tobacco Control Programme.
Ottawa: Health Canada, Tobacco Control Programme, May 2008. [Report]
Table of Contents : Introduction - Background - Proposed changes to the Tobacco (Access) Regulations to regulate little cigars - Other possible changes to the Tobacco (Access) Regulations - Other possible changes to regulate little cigars - Providing feedback - Annex 1: Cigar definitions - Annex 2: Criteria (characteristics and properties) to distinguish little cigars from cigars - Annex 3: Other jurisdictions: situation and definitions.
Benefits and risks in ending regulatory exceptionalism for tobacco
Chapman, Simon
Tobacco Control. 17(2): 73-74. April 2008. [Article]
Comments on the latest WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) report, which presents a new strategy to regulate cigarettes based on product performance measures with the goal of moving away from current measures involving the quantity of the smoke generated and the use of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide values as measures of human exposure.
Best practices in tobacco control : regulation of tobacco products : Canada report
WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg); WHO Tobacco Free Initiative.
Geneva: World Health Organization, 2005. [Report]
Table of Contents: Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke - Regulation of the contents of tobacco products - Regulation of tobacco products disclosures - Packaging and labelling of tobacco products - Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship - Fees for tobacco brand registration - Conclusion.
Big Tobacco's guinea pigs : how an unregulated industry experiments on America's kids and consumers
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; American Heart Association; American Stroke Association; American Cancer Society; American Lung Association.
Washington, D.C.: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, February 2008. [Report]
Table of Contents: Executive summary - Introduction - The critical role of product design - New products - Recruiting new users - Creating and sustaining addiction - Discouraging quitting - FDA regulation of tobacco products will protect consumers and save lives - Appendix: glossary of terms.
FDA regulation of tobacco : pitfalls and possibilities
Brandt, Allan M.
The New England Journal of Medicine. 359(5): 445-448. July 31, 2008. [Article]
Perspective on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, currently under debate in the U.S. Congress. The proposed regulation, if passed, would strengthen advertising restrictions and prohibitions on marketing to youth; require new and more prominent warning labels; compel companies to disclose all ingredients in tobacco products; and authorize the FDA to restrict harmful additives, as well as monitor and reduce nicotine yields.
Mandated lowering of toxicants in cigarette smoke : a description of the World Health Organization TobReg proposal
Burns, D. M.; Dybing, E.; Gray, N.; et al.
Tobacco Control. 17(2): 132-141. April 2008. [Article]
Describes the proposal by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) using performance measures for cigarettes to develop a new approach to regulate decreasing chemicals in cigarette smoke. The aim of this strategy is to decrease the toxic levels of cigarettes currently available assessed under standardised conditions.
The proposed tobacco regulation : the triumph of hope over experience?
Kozlowski, Lynn T.
Tobacco Control. 17(2): 74-75. April 2008. [Article]
Editorial on the latest WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) report. TobReg presents a new strategy to regulate cigarettes based on product performance measures with the goal of moving away from current measures involving the quantity of the smoke generated and the use of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide values as measures of human exposure.
Tobacco industry research and efforts to manipulate smoke particle size : implications for product regulation
Wayne, Geoffrey Ferris; Connolly, Gregory N.; Henningfield, Jack E.; Farone, William A.
Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 10(4): 613-625. April 2008. [Article]
Reviews tobacco industry documents to evaluate how the industry regards smoke particle size as a controlling influence over inhalation and exposure. The tobacco industry assesses the affect of particle size as a possible approach to decrease the adverse effects of exposure, and impinge on the physical and sensory product attributes. Authors recommend including particle size among tobacco product regulation.