We’re being killed by marketing, again

We did the right thing by banning tobacco advertising. Now it’s time for government to restrict the marketing of food and beverages to Canadian kids.

Today, it is food and beverage marketing that is the danger. And this time the target is our kids. The Trudeau government has made promising commitments on this issue, but more needs to be done, write Andrew Cockwell and Diego Marchese. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANDREW COCKWELL, DIEGO MARCHESE

February 13, 2017

Seventy years ago, at the 1947 meeting of the American Medical Association, all the big tobacco companies were major sponsors. As one commentator described it, doctors “lined up by the hundred” to pick up free cigarettes at company booths. Big tobacco was aggressively seeking doctors—yes, doct...

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