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Though smoking rates are down to 17 per cent, 45,000 Canadians still die every year because of tobacco use. There’s still enormous work to be done.

The Federal Tobacco Control Strategy is due to expire in March, leaving Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor to decide on what’s next. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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