Flavor Bans The Next Nail in the Coffin?

By Heneage Mitchell

Canada’s C-32 Bill, passed in late 2009, will put a serious crimp into the flavorings permitted in cigarettes sold in Canada. Several US politicians were quick to apply pressure on Canadian legislators, seeing the threat it presents to US burley exports to Canada (despite there having been almost none in recent years). But there are other, more far-reaching ramifications, that have got some of the industry’s top names worried.

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