[SheLion]

"Tobacco usage is at its lowest rate ever in Canada now, and that's certainly directly linked to the whole tobacco-control policies put in place by the government of Canada over the last 15 years," Desrosiers said.

Oh really?  I truly believe that Canadians are rolling their own or headed to the Net to buy cigarettes.  Just like their American friends.

And it's about time Big Tobacco started standing up.  Might be a little too late.

[SheLion]

Bad Moon Rising Over Canada

[ElkGroveDan]

Canada is a classic example of PC and liberalism run amuck; socialized medicine, multilingual division, judges declaring that women can run around topless, hate laws that prevent churches from discussing issues of morality, anti smoking nazis....etc, etc.

Watch and learn my friends -- don't let it happen here.

[Just another Joe]

Tobacco companies fighting back?
I don't know what to say bump.

[altair]

Canadian anti-smoking rules are seen as among the world's toughest, requiring that graphic images of such things as lung tumors and diseased gums cover half of cigarette packs,

I see. And should Big Mac wrappers be half-covered with pictures of clogged arteries and diseased hearts? Or packages of candy half-covered with pictures of toothless people?

[Great Dane]

The Canadian cancer society claims Canada has the lowest number of smokers ever, that may be true, but these numbers hasn't changed much in the last 10 years, proving the fanatisism doesn't work.