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The OCSH gave a deputation on January 19, 2016 at Ottawa Public Health's consultation meeting on prohibiting the use of non-tobacco substances (e.g. herbal water pipes, electronic cigarettes, marijuana) in public places and workplaces. The OCSH supports prohibiting the use of these substances in all indoor and outdoor public places and work places where tobacco smoking is prohibited.
The OCSH gave a deputation to the Ottawa Board of Health on December 7, 2015, in support of Let's Clear the Air 2.0: Consultation Plan, Ottawa Public Health's plan to update the City of Ottawa's smoke-free bylaws. The OCSH supports regulating the use of water pipes, electronic cigarettes, and other non-tobacco combustible products in all public places and workplaces.
Read our letter requesting that the Ontario government repeal the regulation permitting medical marijuana vaping in all public places and workplaces, and immediately ban the sale of menthol flavoured tobacco products.
OCSH Letter to Ottawa City Council in Support of Increasing the Tobacco Retailer License Fee11/23/2015
Read our letter in support of this important tobacco control measure for the City of Ottawa.
Read our submission in support of new regulations under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, including a ban on: the sale of flavoured tobacco; smoking on hospital grounds; the sale of electronic cigarettes to youth; and the use of electronic cigarettes in enclosed work places and public places.
Read the NCC's letter, in response to the OCSH's request to install smoke-free signage along the Rideau Canal Skateway. The OCSH thanks the NCC for supporting smoke-free outdoor public places, and for its positive response to public complaints about second-hand smoke at Winterlude sites.
Read our letter to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and to the Ontario Hospital Association about complaints from the community regarding exposure to second-hand smoke and cigarette butt litter on hospital campuses.
Read the Ontario Hospital Association's response. Since tobacco use remains the number one cause of disease, disability, and death in our community, the OCSH believes that no one should be exposed to second-hand smoke on hospital campuses. Read our letter in support of a ban of flavoured tobacco products, and in support of regulating the sale, display, promotion, and use of electronic cigarettes in enclosed public places and workplaces.
Read the response from Hon Dipika Damerla, Associate Minister of Health. Read our letter. The OCSH also asks the City of Ottawa to extend the ban to all public places and work places.
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