Statement made on 01 December 2010 by Senator Grant Mitchell
Hon. Grant Mitchell:
Honourable senators, I want to ask a question on smoking. I hope I do not get a filtered answer, but I am not counting on it.
Science and research tells us that labels and warnings on tobacco packages must be changed periodically or people become inured to them. In fact, it is in the regulations that these changes should be made. Of course, cigarette companies do not want to make such changes because that would be negative marketing. It turns out that this Conservative government is actually quite happy to allow the tobacco companies off the hook by not requiring that they change these warnings.
Why is it that this government would side with cigarette tobacco companies against science and the health of Canadians when it will not cost the Canadian taxpayer any money to make the change?
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