"The brand's parent company says such products 'are being sold by unauthorized parties.' (Yanjun Li/CBC)"
""If you take a highly addictive drug like nicotine and you wrap it up and sell it in lovely flavours with lovely branding and you put messages around that, that it's fun to use kids are going to buy it and they're going to use it," said David Hammond, a professor at the University of Waterloo's School of Public Health"
In August 2024 federal rules limited sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies. Health Canada classifies nicotine pouches as natural health products for people 18 and over and intends them as smoking-cessation tools. Only Zonnic, owned by Imperial Tobacco Canada, is legally authorized for pharmacy sale, restricted to four-milligram pouches in mint or menthol. Purchases in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax found other brands, fruity flavours and doses as high as 15 milligrams sold in corner stores. Multiple online distributors claiming Canadian locations offered unauthorized flavours, high doses and quick, discreet delivery. Experts warn flavored branding increases youth appeal and addiction risk.
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