Essay Archive - Tobacco
Tobacco
Canada has one of the world's toughest antismoking campaign. They have
passed laws against tobacco advertising and have used virtually all of the
Presidents proposals against tobacco.
Now they are saying that if Clinton's proposals do become a law it
won't do much good.
By 1993 the tobacco taxes in Canada had a pack of cigarettes up to
$5.00 a pack . Thanks to these measures, Garfield Mahood, Executive
Director of the Toronto based Non-Smokers Rights Association., said, "
Canada has had world precedent-setting declines in teen smoking." Between
1979 and 1989, the number of teens aged 15 to 19 wh....
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