Provinces must seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement: health groups
, unlike in the U.S., Cunningham said, where governments in all 50 states were involved in a similar settlement with tobacco companies in 1998. That’s when an independent Americanfoundation was funded to control the tobacco industry, which was forced to disclose 40 million pages of previously secret documents.
Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said Canadian jurisdictions should introduce measures that would force tobacco companies to wind down their businesses “instead of getting them to foot the bill on traditional programs.” She pointed to New Zealand, which passed a law to ban — for life — the sale of tobacco products to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009.This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2023.
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