Raising minimum age for tobacco product sales in Canada is good public policy

If we don’t act quickly and raise the minimum legal age to 21 to purchase vaping or tobacco products in every province in Canada, we may lose decades of work done by public health to decrease use.

We need to put measures in place to protect our young people from becoming addicted to tobacco and suffering the associated negative consequences, writes Dr. Shalea Beckwith.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY DR. SHALEA BECKWITH

July 7, 2021

Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in Canada, and is currently responsible for more than one in six Canadian deaths. Most people who use tobacco products start doing so as a youth or you...

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