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Kelowna Safeway fined for selling smokes to minor

Interior Health hires minors as secret shoppers to test retailers selling tobacco and vape products

 

Police in Vernon seized nearly 1.5 million contraband cigarettes after a traffic stop was conducted on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (RCMP photo)

Okanagan a ‘hot spot’ for contraband tobacco

Retailers sound alarm after traffic stop in Vernon saw more than a million illegal smokes seized

 

A man holds a lit cigarette while smoking in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Retail organizations, merchants and tobacco industry officials estimate between 30 and 50 per cent of tobacco sales in B.C. are contraband products, and they are calling on governments and police to crack down on the organized crime groups that sell them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jeff Chiu

Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear

Industry wants governments and police to crack down on organized crime groups that sell it

 

Current Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks to media during the Liberal cabinet retreat in Winnipeg, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Sudoma

Canada not paying for tobacco company stake in vaccine-maker Medicago: minister

Canada has signed a contract to buy up to 76 million doses of Covifenz vaccine

Current Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks to media during the Liberal cabinet retreat in Winnipeg, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Sudoma
In addition to cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco, e-cigaretts are also in use. (Pixabay.com)

QUIZ: How much do you know about tobacco?

May 31 has been designated as World No Tobacco Day by the World Health Organization. Are you ready?

In addition to cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco, e-cigaretts are also in use. (Pixabay.com)
Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie is bringing his smoking cessation seminar to Vernon and Kelowna on April 2, 2022. (Andres Siimon/Unsplash)

Workshop to help smokers quit through hypnotism coming to Okanagan

Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie will be hosting the Vernon and Kelowna workshops on April 2

Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie is bringing his smoking cessation seminar to Vernon and Kelowna on April 2, 2022. (Andres Siimon/Unsplash)
Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie is bringing his smoking cessation seminar to Vernon and Kelowna on April 2, 2022. (Andres Siimon/Unsplash)

Workshop to help smokers quit through hypnotism coming to Vernon, Kelowna

Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie will be hosting the Okanagan workshops on April 2

Surrey hypnotist Scott Christie is bringing his smoking cessation seminar to Vernon and Kelowna on April 2, 2022. (Andres Siimon/Unsplash)
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