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An Ernst & Young report conducted for the Convenience Industry Council of Canada, pointed out that due to the border closure between Quebec and New Brunswick, the illegal tobacco trade in Atlantic Canada dropped, leading to a hike in legal cigarette sales.“We’ve always known (illegal sales were) a big problem in Ontario and Quebec, but I think what this really showed was you had another factor for Atlantic Canada, which was, essentially, the closure of the border,” said council president Anne Kothawala in a recent interview.Significant increases in legal salesWhen comparing figures from June 2020 to those in June 2019, Prince Edward Island saw a 47% increase in legal cigarette sales, while New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador both saw increases of over 44%, and in Nova Scotia legal sales were 21% higher.Since tobacco taxes are much lower in Quebec, traffickers have been known to use New Brunswick as the gateway for illegal cigarette trade into the Atlantic provinces, with the traffic trickling to Nova Scotia and P.E.I., said Kothawala. She suspects that the effects of the border closure between New Brunswick and Quebec will linger until the end of the year, during which retailers will continue to witness higher rates of legal cigarette sales.Read Further: Global NewsReports: Smoking Rates Increased Due to COVID-19

Following the congressional passage of the “vape mail” ban that will end U.S. Postal Service shipping of vaping products to consumers, UPS has joined FedEx in announcing it too will end shipping of vapes. The ban covers shipping to both consumers and businesses.“Effective April 5, 2021, UPS will not transport vaping products to, from, or within the United States due to the increased complexity to ship those products,” a company spokesperson told Vaping360 by email. The policy, which will soon leave no major shipping service willing to deliver vaping products to homes, has left online vaping retailers scrambling to find a solution.The announcement followed days of uncertainty. Some vaping businesses were told that their accounts would be closed, and others being reassured that the company’s tobacco and vapor product policy would not change. (The UPS website has still not amended the policy.)FedEx had already confirmed that it would end vapor product shipping as of March 1. The other major shipping service previously banned domestic retail shipments of e-cigarettes and all nicotine-containing products. The policy, which will soon leave no major shipping service willing to deliver vaping products to homes, has left online vaping retailers scrambling to find a solution.The new law, which was inserted into the federal Omnibus Spending Bill, mandates that the U.S. Postal Service create regulations within 120 days banning U.S. Mail delivery of vaping products—whether they contain nicotine or not. The bill was so broad that the wording includes all vaping products, including cannabis, CBD, and flavor-only liquids and devices.The Postal Service has not issued its new rules yet. Existing USPS regulations allow manufacturers and distributors to ship cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to each other, but not directly to customers. If those rules carry over to vaping products, vape shops will still be able to receive products, but individual customers will not receive deliveries at home.In addition to banning USPS deliveries of vaping products, the “Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act” forces vape product sellers into the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act, which is part of the larger federal Jenkins Act. The PACT Act imposes a series of stringent requirements on shippers of included products:Register with the U.S. Attorney General/ATFVerify the age of customers using a commercially available databaseUse private shipping services that collect an adult signature at the point of delivery.If selling in states that tax vaping products, sellers must register with the federal government and the states’ tobacco tax administrators.Collect all applicable local and state taxes, and affix any required tax stamps to the products soldSend each taxing state’s tax administrator a list of all transactions with customers in their state, including the names and addresses of each customer sold to and the quantities and type of each product sold.Maintain records for five years of any “delivery interrupted because the carrier or service determines or has reason to believe that the person ordering the delivery violates the [PACT Act]”Sellers who do not register or don’t comply with the PACT Act requirements are subject to severe penalties, including prison. The PACT Act provisions of the law affect late March and apply to all online sales, no matter which carrier ships them.

In July 2020, puff bar announced that it would stop all online sales and distribution in the United States until further notice. However, the brand resumed sales on its website last month by changing its products. Puff bar is now using smokeless nicotine to avoid the ban, according to the Wall Street Journal.As a result of this change, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to study puff bar’s redesigned fruit flavored disposable e-cigarette, Hill reported. The regulator said it was aware of puff bar’s actions, but would not say whether the agency’s ban still applies, citing an ongoing investigation.In mid-2020, the FDA asked puff bar to stop selling its fruit flavored disposable e-cigarettes as part of a broader crackdown on underage e-cigarettes. In a letter to puff bar, the FDA’s tobacco product center said the agency is not authorized to sell puff bar products, and the company has made unauthorized claims on its website that its disposable e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. In early 2020, the trump government banned the use of fruit flavored e-cigarettes in reusable devices, such as Juul, which has sparked an e-cigarette craze among teenagers in the United States. According to the policy, only mint and tobacco flavors are allowed in these devices. But the ban does not apply to disposable vaping products, such as puff bar, which offer more than 20 flavors, including Pina cola and pink lemonade.After the ban, puff bar quickly became the preferred vape for young people. After bidi stick and Blu, puff bar has fallen to third place in the disposable category this year, according to Nielsen. It’s not clear who owns the puff bar. Previous owners include cool clouds distribution in California and DS technology licensing in China.

“.. the good news is that the rapid increase in e-cigarette use has not yet resulted in a reversal of the decreasing trends of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use, and if anything, those trends have accelerated.”A research team from the University of Michigan had analyzed nationwide data on tobacco product use among 8th, 10th and 12th-graders, from 1991 to 2019. The compiled data indicated that daily smoking rates among 12th-grade boys rose by 4.9% a year between 1991 and 1998, but fell by 8% a year between 1998 and 2006, and by 1.6% from 2006 to 2012.Moreover there was a 17% annual decline in smoking between 2012 and 2019. This positive pattern was consistent amongst boys and girls in all grades and for both black and white teens, corresponding to an increase in vaping rates amongst the same age groups.Study author Rafael Meza emphasized that clearly the infamous “Gateway Theory” which states that the uptake of vaping could act as a gateway to smoking, holds no ground. “So I think the good news is that the rapid increase in e-cigarette use has not yet resulted in a reversal of the decreasing trends of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use, and if anything, those trends have accelerated.”Conflicting messagesHowever, another recent study published in Pediatrics is suggesting otherwise. The study titled, “Smoking Intention and Progression From E-Cigarette Use to Cigarette Smoking,” concluded that e-cig use was associated with increased odds of smoking among adolescents who had no previous smoking intention.“Research is showing us that adolescent e-cigarette users who progress to cigarette smoking are not simply those who would have ended up smoking cigarettes anyway,” says lead study author Olusegun Owotomo in a press release. “Our study shows that e-cigarettes can predispose adolescents to cigarette smoking, even when they have no prior intentions to do so.”Several other studies have looked into this relationship. Another recent study of high school seniors in the U.S., had indicated that teens who crave excitement and are inclined to experiment, are more likely to use multiple illicit substances, including tobacco and/or vaping products.Study: Vaping is a Gateway Out of (Not Into) Smoking