{"id":20190,"date":"2020-01-22T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2020-01-22T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:17:24","slug":"vaping-news-ottawa-canada-smoking-cessation-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20190","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: OTTAWA, CANADA [Smoking Cessation Conference]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The politics of e-cigarettes infiltrated Ottawa\u2019s annual conference on smoking cessation this week with a group claiming to represent the rights of vapers complaining they were being \u201cshut-out\u201d of the conference and that it was unfairly targetting vaping. The pro-vaping group, Rights4Vapers, even rented a room at the Shaw Centre next door to the 12th annual Ottawa Conference on state-of-the-art clinical approaches to smoking ce<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ssation, saying they planned to hold a conference within the larger conference. That rental was later rescinded. Spokesperson, Sherin Edwards, a vaping business owner and advocate from Mirabel, Que., and a former candidate for Maxime Bernier\u2019s People\u2019s Party of Canada, said the group opposes regulations, including bans on flavoured e-cigarettes and nicotine levels. The group\u2019s aim is to \u201cprotect the rights of adult vapers, whose access is under siege,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawasun.com\/news\/local-news\/politics-of-e-cigarettes-filters-into-smoking-cessation-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pro-vaping group infiltrates smoking cessation conference<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20OTTAWA%2C%20CANADA%20%5BSmoking%20Cessation%20Conference%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The politics of e-cigarettes infiltrated Ottawa\u2019s annual conference on smoking cessation this week with a group claiming to represent the rights of vapers complaining they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20191,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions\/20191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}