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EDITORIAL: Huff and puff  

The Canadian Medical Association Journal says in its latest edition commercial products that help people quit smoking should be free because anything that reduces cigarette smoking is a positive thing. . . .

Unfortunately, the medical association did not analyze the potential cost of such a program, except to say it would be offset by the savings in health-care budgets. The same could probably be said about offering free sardines, which have amazing health benefits . . .

A costly program is probably not in the best interests of the health-care system at a time when governments can barely fund their core responsibilities under budgets partly fuelled by tobacco taxes and free of the costs of tobacco replacements.

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