‘We appeal to your leadership to stop Big Tobacco’: Health organizations pen letter to premiers regarding tobacco-companies settlement

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Any settlement reached with tobacco companies should include clear measures to reduce smoking and change industry behaviour, health organizations say

ordering them to pay about $15-billion in damages to 100,000 smokers who developed tobacco-related diseases.

Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society, said money from the settlement can’t simply go to general provincial budgets. Andrew Pipe, a smoking cessation expert and past chair of Heart and Stroke, said provinces should make it a priority to direct settlement funds to bettering public health.system across the country that’s in crisis, and the sums that are in play here could make very substantial contributions to addressing some of the elements of that crisis,” Dr. Pipe said.

 

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