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Canada "behind eight ball" in fighting youth smoking 

Canada is lagging far behind other countries in preventing youth smoking, a Nova Scotia pediatrician says. Dr. Andrew Lynk notes that 29% of his province's teens smoke, while the comparable rate in California is only 7%. "We're way behind the eight ball," says Lynk. . .

Despite the new spending, the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is urging physicians to back the Tobacco Youth Protection Act, which would impose a 19-cent levy on each pack of cigarettes and raise an estimated $360 million annually — $12 per capita — for programs to reduce youth tobacco use.

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