Jump to full article: Halifax (NS) Chronicle Herald (ca), 2001-05-06
Author: The Sunday Herald editorial
Intro: TIRED of governments and the tobacco industry blowing smoke over wanting to stop youth smoking?
Who isn't? But if you want to do something about it, the opportunity is at hand.
You can write your MP, your man in the federal cabinet (Robert Thibault for Nova Scotia), Health Minister Allan Rock and the prime minister. Tell them to wise up and adopt a no-bull bill on curbing youth smoking - Senator Colin Kenny's Tobacco Youth Protection Act.
Senator Kenny's private member's bill, S-15, is a great piece of legislation. . .
California's cessation effort is not only saving the young from addiction, it is saving $3.62 in medical costs for each $1 spent.
Canadian youth and taxpayers deserve what works, too.
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