Measures to protect young people from smoking claimed by the Canadian Cancer Society
Author: Terra Lewis
Campaign 2011 Quebec Week for a Smoke Free Future, which runs from January 17 to 23, this year puts emphasis on the benefits of living in an environment free of secondhand smoke.
No Smoking Sign
The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), Quebec Division, take this week to remember that smoking is still the leading cause of cancer, reports The New / The Union.
Tobacco is responsible for 1 in 3 cancer deaths in Quebec. And lung cancer is the deadliest: 2 times more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer. Men are 4 ½ times more likely to die from lung cancer than that of the prostate.
We must strengthen the Tobacco Act of 2005 by adding measures that encourage youth to remain non-smokers and help them resist the aggressive marketing of tobacco and tobacco at a discount, consider the CCS.
It proposes to:
* Freeze the market for tobacco: preventing the industry to market new products or modify existing products to make them more attractive by imposing a moratorium;
* Tackling the smuggling zone: the police must have the necessary means to act more effectively against smaller distribution networks that target neighborhoods, schools and children, extending the VITAL project, implemented in particular in Laval, St Jerome and Montreal and has already achieved good results in all regions of Quebec;
* Prohibit smoking in a vehicle in the presence of a child under 16 years. Eight provinces and one territory have already adopted this measure, which would be supported by nearly 80% of Quebecers.
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