Most Canadians don't smoke.

Yet Canada has chosen to implement a nationwide smoking-cessation strategy to make nicotine vaping devices as accessible as possible.

It was an unusual public health decision for regulators to deliberately craft a law to encourage the sale of an addictive product.

The federal government's goal was "to strike a balance between protecting youth from inducement to nicotine and tobacco use, while allowing adult smokers to legally access vaping products," Health Minister Jane Philpott told a Senate committee on April 12, 2017, [...]