Flavoured tobacco is about to become a thing of the past in Ontario and nobody is happier than our local Canadian Cancer Society
The Oxford County Canadian Cancer Society is thrilled to see Bill 45 pass at the Ontario Legislature.
In the bill the sale of flavoured tobacco will be banned in Ontario, e-cigarettes will now be treated like normal smokes and restaurants will be required to put calorie counts on their menu's. Manager of the Oxford County Community Office with the Canadian Cancer Society Janis Cunningham tells Heart FM they are really happy to see flavoured tobacco being taken off the market. She says " Flavoured tobacco is packaged and marketed towards youth and we have had a display for the past year and a half that shows clearly that flavoured tobacco looks like candy and is even packaged to look like makeup and different things like that, that is really targeted to that younger age."
Cunningham says they did a survey of Oxford County secondary schools a couple of years that indicated students started smoking at the age of 14 because flavoured tobacco made the products more appealing. The survey also found the teen smoking rate in Oxford is twice as high at nearly 40 percent as the Ontario average which is 18 percent. Cunningham says statistics like this make the passing of Bill 45 that much more important.

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