Fifty years apart, Trudeau governments prefer tobacco harm reduction to protective laws

It took almost two decades before the tobacco control mistakes of the 1970s were remedied by the Mulroney government in 1988. Let's hope we don't have to wait that long for flavoured e-cigarettes to be removed from the market.

John Munro, left, pictured at a Liberal fundraiser in the 1960s, was prime minister Pierre Trudeau's health minister in the 1970s. In 1971, he introduced a law to ban cigarette advertising and regulated packaging, but abandoned it shortly afterwards, writes Cynthia Callard. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY CYNTHIA CALLARD

June 15, 2023

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