Did anyone else get a notice that the deadline for the 3rd review of Canada's TVPA has been postponed from next week to September? I guess they didn't get many entries! Not surprising - it's on enforcement and there isn't much to enforce. Still zero interest in adult smokers.

Remember that CAMH conference scheduled for Nov 2025 -- the one proposing to listen to consumers? It seems to have vanished! I wonder if the several speaking proposals from consumers (in Vapers for a Smoke-Free Canada) had anything to do with this.

Aha! I just found the response to my application for the CPHA conference. It's past 8 Sept., so are they still mulling over my proposal or don't have the nerve to send a polite rejection, or tossed my application on receipt?

The Canadian Public Health Conference on Tobacco & Nicotine (Nov 2025) has the maker of Nicorette as a sponsor. They don't allow anyone with even remote links to the vape or BT industry to participate. The highlighted sentence shows some hypocrisy, no?

I looked at the CAPH conference on smoking/nic to see who's the lived-experience rep they're highlighting. It's Eugene Wong, a cook on Tik Tok, who also works with Smoke-Free Connect, a cessation group run by the NGOs. Why am I not surprised?

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary It's also my 52nd anniversary of being initiated into Transcendental Meditation. Two marker of entering new worlds.

The Rebellion! "The old show is collapsing. The audience has stopped clapping. And from the crowd, a new voice is rising, one that refuses to be silenced." ALIVE Pippa Starr - Let's Improve Vaping Education! 🇦🇺 Mark Butler MP Anne Ruston Dr Joe Dr James Martin aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/the-rebel…

Dr Mir of Ottawa's Model of Smoking Cessation said in a seminar this month that a study shows that people who switch from smoking to vaping and then relapse smoke more than they did before switching. I've asked him for this study, but have had no reply. Is this a known study?

Can't leave this alone! Here's what he said: There is a study... giving e-cigs to smokers not interested in quitting resulted in a 50 percent increase in the amount smoked... from 20 - 30 cigarettes...This was a large randomized control trial from the BMJ. Just BS?

Does anyone know anything about Dr Joss Reiner, the newly-appointed Chief of Canada's Public Health? She was a doctor in Manitoba, head of the CMA, and apparently has some interest in harm reduction. I wonder if she will apply that to tobacco!

Yesterday I criticized the journalistic ethics of a piece about pouches in the Toronto Star. It had the usual cast of characters - Hammond, Mir, Holland -- and pix of a grubby teen with a pouch in his mouth. Within hours I had 25 thumbs down! People are brainwashed.

The constant attacks must be getting to me. The news today is all about the Ontario budget. Do I care about defense spending, health care, mortgage relief? No -- my first check was to see if they're raising the tax on vaping eliquid. (They aren't -- this time.)

Has anyone seen the letter that the Canadian 3 Stooges sent to every federal MP? I think it calls for some rebuttal! cqct.qc.ca/Documents_docs…

The latest NGO campaign to advertise vaping to kids is really clever! The Canadian Lung Association is sponsoring a spelling bee of all the harmful chemicals that could ever be found in vapes! instagram.com/p/DXb5Cx8Dqh6/

My world changed on 27 April, 2014 -- that was the day I took my last drag on a cigarette and the first puff of Apple-flavoured eliquid! Gratitude to everyone who has helped and encouraged me during the past 12 years, and appreciation to all my wonderful vaping friends!