Our Federation is strongly in favour of this Bill for several reasons. The health education and cessation programmes for youth would be targeting the problem of smoking at its source since smoking among youth in Canada is rapidly increasing. These young people are the adult smokers of the future. Evidence from other parts of the world, such as California, indicates that such programmes work. The government of Canada has a moral obligation to pass this Bill.
Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in Canada.
We urge you to do everything you can to get this Bill passed.