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New tobacco strategy will need more funding to reach five per cent target, say observers

Despite serious funding cuts, Ottawa's tobacco control strategy was successful in cutting the number of Canadians who smoke from 25 per cent in 2001 to 15 per cent today. Now, the goal is slashing another 10 per cent by 2035, which experts say will require more funding.

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BY JOLSON LIM
June 4, 2018

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Mark Carney, the buttoned-down economist, technocrat, former top bureaucrat, governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and former vice-chair and head of Brookfield Asset Management, is a new to the rough and tumble of elected politics, but he should show a little wit and political passion, too, especially when the country is angry and anxious about the future.

Canada faces one of its most serious challenges in years, and Carney needs to show a little more political passion

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Mark Carney, the buttoned-down economist, technocrat, former top bureaucrat, governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and former vice-chair and head of Brookfield Asset Management, is a new to the rough and tumble of elected politics, but he should show a little wit and political passion, too, especially when the country is angry and anxious about the future.

New tobacco strategy will need more funding to reach five per cent target, say observers

Despite serious funding cuts, Ottawa's tobacco control strategy was successful in cutting the number of Canadians who smoke from 25 per cent in 2001 to 15 per cent today. Now, the goal is slashing another 10 per cent by 2035, which experts say will require more funding.

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