Smoke Ban Proposed For Entire Province of Ontario [08/06-4]

Excerpts from: Liberals propose smoke-free Ontario

CBC News [08/04/03]

Dalton McGuinty says he would make Ontario a smoke-free province if his Liberals win the next election.

The Liberals say they want to implement a strategy that would ban smoking in all public and work places within three years.
"Our tough anti-smoking strategy will bring real, positive change to Ontario," McGuinty said in a news release.

Other aspects of the Liberals' proposed strategy include: higher prices for cigarettes; a ban on cigarette displays in retail stores; use of extra tax money to help smokers quit; creation of a youth-oriented anti-smoking campaign; encouraging farmers to move away from growing tobacco.

The Liberals say smoking is killing 12,000 Ontarians a year, and is a $4 billion drag on the health care system and economy.

He said that Ontario is reaching the critical mass of municipal smoking bans that makes a province-wide policy necessary.

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