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Hospitality association says the move will be a blow, but believes public opinion not on its side
Jump to full article: Prince Albert (SASK) Daily Herald (ca), 2009-10-27
Author: REGINA JAMES WOOD Saskatchewan News Network
Intro: Cars, patios and pharmacies are all in the Saskatchewan Party government sights as they plan "quite encompassing" new anti-tobacco legislation expected to be introduced later this fall, Health Minister Don McMorris said Monday.
The government promised new anti-tobacco measures in the throne speech starting the legislative session last week.
Among the measures being contemplated are banning smoking on restaurant and bar patios and in vehicles carrying minors, setting new limits on how close people smoking can be to public buildings and curtailing tobacco sales in pharmacies.
"Allowing pharmacies, especially the big box store pharmacies, to be selling tobacco products, it's a little counterintuitive to be passing out (smoking) cessation ... medicine, for example, as well as selling tobacco at the same time," McMorris told reporters at the legislature.
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