Today the Ford government in Ontario announced it will ban the promotion of vaping products in convenience stores and gas stations as of January 1, with the goal of reducing teen vaping. This is good news and catches Ontario up with what has been in done in other provinces across the country, but it’s hardly good enough. The federal government also needs to step up.
Over the last several decades we have made remarkable progress on tobacco control as a result of increased public awareness coupled with supportive public policies and programs. In the 1950s, about half of Canadian adults smoked. Today that number is closer to 15 per cent — a dramatic transformation.
Health professionals and researchers point to this impressive reduction in tobacco use as the single most positive change for Canadians’ health over the past 60 years.
But tobacco still remains the number one cause of preventable death in Canada, killing 45,000 Canadians each year. Unfortunately, five million Canadians still smoke.
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Read the rest of the article at Maclean’s: https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/when-youth-vaping-skyrocketed-smoking-did-too/
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