On May 26, 2009, Youth Action Alliances (YAAs) from Eastern Ontario were invited to speak at the Federal Health Minister’ press conference introducing Bill C-32 which would ban flavoured tobacco products in Canada and place further restrictions on tobacco print and advertising.
Ottawa, March 2011
Pressure mounted Tuesday on the Conservative government to close a loophole to its signature anti-tobacco law after companies found a way around the ban on candy-flavoured cigarillos.
The new rules, in effect since last year, banned companies from adding flavouring to small cigars popular among young people — but only if the filtered cigars contained 1.4 grams of tobacco or less. In response, companies tweaked their products by adding a little tobacco and removing filters in some cases to fall outside the legal definition of flavoured cigarillos.
NDP health critic Megan Leslie hit back with anti-tobacco advocates Tuesday to trumpet their own solution. Leslie's private member's bill closes the flavoured cigarillo loophole and proposes to extend the ban to flavoured chewing tobacco, packaged like candy products.
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