E-Cigarettes Regulation

"Nicotine is a drug, and e-cigarettes containing nicotine are drug-delivery devices. Health Canada has always treated them as such, which makes Canada's laws governing these devices among the most restrictive in the world. Not all e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and selling non-nicotine e-cigarettes is legal in Canada. Some jurisdictions that currently allow e-cigarettes, such as the United Kingdom and the European Union, are planning to regulate them as drug. (1) However, in the United States, e-cigarettes have flourished in the virtual absence of regulatory controls."(go.galegroup.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca) 

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When the e-cigarettes were first introduced, it was not regulated. When e-cigarettes became more well known throughout Europe and America and slowly toward the rest of the world including Canada, some parts of the world remained unregulated while others started regulating the e-cigarettes including Canada. Canada did not regulate e-cigarettes at first since they were not widely used or investigated, once the fact was known that e-cigarettes contain nicotine which is a drug, Canada started regulating the e-cigarettes where people are not able to purchase e-cigarettes that contain nicotine. The nicotine-free electric cigarettes are the only electric cigarettes that Canada considers legal. In some parts of the world, electric cigarettes are not regulated since it is a substitute to smoking and does not harm the user as much as the regular cigarettes do.