tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post568180302285504700..comments2023-10-02T05:15:33.841-07:00Comments on DRUG PREVENTION NETWORK OF CANADA: Get Them Young by Pamela McCollDavid Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-23553159110129826922015-10-18T09:46:57.141-07:002015-10-18T09:46:57.141-07:00New information that recently came my way:
During...New information that recently came my way: <br />During the 1980s, Paul Martin was one of five members of the Executive Committee of Imasco, a British American Tobacco subsidiary which owns 100% of Imperial Tobacco. Imperial currently boasts 70% of Canada's cigarette market.<br /><br />After resigning from Imasco to run for Parliament in 1988, his work for Imasco didn't stop. One of Martin's first acts after becoming Finance Minister in 1993 was to slash federal tobacco taxes and to strong-arm provinces to do the same, which cut cigarette prices in half in Eastern Canada in February of 1994, and nearly doubled youth smoking rates in those provinces. Rates in Western Canada, where prices were maintained, remained stable. Martin claimed that the tax cut was necessary to reduce cigarette smuggling, although it's now known that RJR-Macdonald and Martin's Imperial Tobacco orchestrated most of that smuggling.<br /><br />In 1998, Martin torpedoed a complete tobacco-sponsorship advertising ban just days before then-Federal Health Minister Allan Rock was to give a press conference announcing it. And Martin also killed bills by Senator Colin Kenny to emulate what California did to reduce its youth smoking rate to a third of Canada's.<br /><br />Follow the money - how much did the pot lobby and the tobacco lobby finance the Liberal Campaign of 2015 ? We want and deserve to know. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07309747248576231489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-75014984151165087412015-10-10T16:11:27.971-07:002015-10-10T16:11:27.971-07:00100% you can quit smoking cigarettes using cannabi...100% you can quit smoking cigarettes using cannabis. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com