Representatives from N.B. Lung are in Ottawa to talk to MPs about smoke-free generation legislation.
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Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 20, 2026 2:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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N.B. Lung said a smoke-free generation would mean the age of eligibility to buy vapour and tobacco products would increase by a year every year, so anyone who can already buy these products would be unaffected. (Steven Senne/Associated Press)
Representatives from N.B. Lung are in Ottawa to talk to MPs about smoke-free generation legislation.
Melanie Langille, the CEO and president of N.B. Lung, said this type of legislation would make it so youth who are not old enough to legally purchase vapour and tobacco products today would never be able to.
“It is a big, bold policy ask, and we’re not talking about anything to happen immediately or, you know, in very short order,” Langille said. “But it’s a gradual phase out of the legal age to purchase vapour and tobacco products.”
Because the age of eligibility to buy these products would increase by a year every year,
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