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Ontario has become the latest province in Canada to announce a tax on vapour products, which experts say is a 'great first step' to help curb the rising rates of youth vaping.
An additional vaping tax is coming for products sold in Ontario, the province says, as it plans to take the federal government up on an offer to charge an additional excise duty.
Earlier this year, legislation was introduced to ban the sale of vaping products to under 18s.
In addition to the toll on your skin, teeth, odour and life expectancy, smoke breaks are about to cost you more money. Quebec is set to raise the tax on cigarettes by $8 per carton of 200. It's the first targeted tobacco tax increase in nine years, according to Minister of Finance Eric Girard. In a press release, his office described the move as a public health measure aimed at decreasing the number of smokers in the province.
Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill this week that included provisions cutting the 25% tax that wholesalers were to be charged for closed-system vaping cartridges such as Juul devices to 15%