Alberta could receive billions from tobacco companies in massive deal

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A person smokes a cigarette in downtown Ottawa on September 29, 2009. Major tobacco firms argued in a Montreal courtroom today June 18, 2015 that the law being invoked by Quebec to get $60 billion from them is unconstitutional.

The Alberta government could receive billions of dollars in health-care cost recovery from the tobacco industry in a proposed deal, but critics say it's not enough to address the problem of smoking.Alberta could get more than $3 billion in a proposed payout from three major tobacco companies as part of a years-long legal battle. The potential settlement may see JTI-Macdonald Corp., Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.

In a statement to CBC News, a spokesperson for Health Minister Adriana LaGrange's office said tobacco use has had a significant impact on the quality of life of Albertans, and places a considerable burden on the province's health-care system. "But when you look at the number of Canadians who smoked, the injuries to them, their health-care costs, it probably is quite modest when you account for all of that," she said.

In the United States — the only other place where there have been significant settlements — governments that received settlement money didn't always use it to address health-care problems created by smoking, Hardcastle said.

 

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