Cancer Shouldn’t Come in a Candy Wrapper!
Jun 01, 2015
Cancer Shouldn’t Come in a Candy Wrapper!
What are “flavoured tobacco industry products?”
MENTHOLCIGARETTES
LITTLE CIGARS
Little Cigar vs. Cigarette
CIGARS
CIGARILLOS
BLUNTS
CHEWING TOBACCO
SNUS
DISSOLVABLE TOBACCO
Not for sale in .......YET!
So what’s the problem?
BIG TOBACCO TARGETS
YOUTH!
Flavours and Packaging“Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular
customer.” Philip Morris Researcher, 1981
Where have all the graphic health warnings gone???
YOUTH SMOKING SURVEY (YSS), 2010/2011
• 52% of Canadian youth in grades 9 – 12 who had used a tobacco industry product in the last 30 days
had chosen a FLAVOURED product
• 32% of Canadian youth in grades 9-12 who smoked cigarettes in the last 30 days reported
smoking MENTHOL cigarettes
PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONSIN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
We, the undersigned, Youth and Adults of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:
THAT, flavoured tobacco products are marketed to youth by the Tobacco Industry;
AND THAT, these flavoured and easy-to-use products serve to attract and addict youth to the products at an early age;
AND THAT, the government are the only ones that can stop the Tobacco Industry marketing to youth with addictiveproducts.
THEREFORE, your petitioners, request that Parliament pass legislation that will
Remove ALL flavours from ALL tobacco products.