“Reduced Ignition Propensity”: Canada at the Forefront

By Sarah Lazarovic

That health minister of ours. He’s more forward thinking than all of Scandinavia put together! While other countries innovate with solar heating, or universal access to higher education, Canada’s official health hound, Ujjal Dosanjh. has been busy repeating the following three words: Reduced Ignition Propensity. What does it mean in layman’s terms? A mighty good question. You need not fear that your car ignition is losing its will to live, growing passive and despondent at winter’s onset. Reduced Ignition Propensity just means our cigarettes will soon go out all by themselves. “We will be the first country to have a national standard to reduce the fire risk of cigarettes,” said Dossanjh. Great, thinks Torontoist, but why not just force the country’s smokers to switch to Bidis. Not only do they fizzle out every five seconds, but they’re the new teen fad.