Government striking out at flavored smokes

[bluenoser]

Been a big discussion going on in a few provinces up here in Canada over the last little while. Just seen a news feed saying my home province (Nova Scotia) is putting in legislation to ban all flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes. I guess they're allowing things like wine and rum flavored cigars of 5g or more, to stay for now but they're even trying to take out e-smoking products. I was never a big cigarette smoker and did usually prefer menthol, especially when I had a cold/sore throat, but if they didn't have it I'd just buy regular cigs. All it's going to do is force people to buy out of province and hurt the convenience store's sales. Not to mention they're estimating at least 5 million lost in taxes alone, which I think might be underestimated because it will be pushing more people to shop for them and other items elsewhere (across the border to New Brunswick/ internet etc...).


Couldn't get the video to appear right here for some reason but link to it is right here if anyone's interested.
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?cli...ylistPageNum=1