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Canada Passes Ultra-Strict Tobacco Ban
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2009
By David Savona
Only the beginning.
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Canada, one of the most anti-smoking countries in the world, further stiffened its limitations on tobacco last week by banning flavored cigarettes and cigars, the single sale of little cigars and completely prohibiting tobacco advertising in print.
An Act to Amend the Tobacco Act passed the Senate on October 6 and received Royal Assent from Gov. General Michaelle Jean on October 8.
The move will make flavored cigarettes and cigars illegal in 270 days as well as the sale of loose, or single, little cigars and blunt wraps. (Those all now have to be sold in packs of no fewer than 20 units.) The law also removes the loophole that allowed publications with more than 85 percent adult readership to accept tobacco advertisements.
Canada has previously banned tobacco advertising in certain provinces (forcing one cigar shop to advertise "igars" for sale) and there are few places in the Great White North where smoking is allowed.
For more on this story see the October 20 Cigar Insider.
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