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Fifty years apart, Trudeau governments prefer tobacco harm reduction to protective laws

It took almost two decades before the tobacco control mistakes of the 1970s were remedied by the Mulroney government in 1988. Let's hope we don't have to wait that long for flavoured e-cigarettes to be removed from the market.

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BY CYNTHIA CALLARD
June 15, 2023

Opinion | BY CYNTHIA CALLARD | June 15, 2023

Cynthia Callard is the executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. See all stories BY CYNTHIA CALLARD

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Fifty years apart, Trudeau governments prefer tobacco harm reduction to protective laws

It took almost two decades before the tobacco control mistakes of the 1970s were remedied by the Mulroney government in 1988. Let's hope we don't have to wait that long for flavoured e-cigarettes to be removed from the market.

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