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LATEST RELEASESSeptember 2006 Winnipeg landlord to ban apartment smoking ...continue here » June 2006 Motion calling for a Smoke-Free Canada unanimously passed in the Senate ...continue here » Ottawa International Airport Set to go Smoke-Free
The Ottawa International Airport Authority today announced that in keeping with the Province Of Ontario’s Smoke-Free Ontario Act, it would become a smoke free facility
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 The Ottawa Council on Smoking and Health is greatly saddened to learn that Heather Crowe, this great Canadian, has lost her fight to cancer.We will continue, in her honour, to advocate for a smoke-free Canada. ...continue here »
Senator Mac Harb calls on the government to make Canada smoke-free in all workplaces
and public spaces under federal jurisdiction.
A smoke-free Canada is possible, but due to shared jurisdiction, it will take the combined efforts of the federal government and the provinces/territories to ensure Canadians across the country are equally protected from the dangers of second-hand smoke. ...motion » January 2006 Council on Smoking and Health Loses a Great Advocate
The Council regrets the loss a great advocate this past weekend, Katherine
Lytle died at age 89. She was very active with the Council until the age of
83. She was a founding member of the Council and worked tirelessly to create
smoke-free spaces
 Building Capacity for a Tobacco-Free World (www.13thwctoh.org)
Heather Crowe's Lung Cancer no Longer in Remission
Heather Crowe has been admitted to the
Queensway-Carleton Hospital in Ottawa, where she has learned that her lung cancer is
no longer in remission."Heather has put a face to the often ignored issue of lung cancer. Her work has ensured that many Canadians will be protected from her fate" Deirdre Freiheit,
June 2005 Phil Mcneely Honoured
 The Ottawa Council on Smoking and Health honoured Phil McNeely MPP for his support in the development of the new
Smoke-free Ontario Act. President Ellen Holmes presented Mr. McNeely with a commemorative plaque at Ottawa City Hall. Ottawa Youth Support Taking Death Off Display
May 2005 Student postcard campaign forces changes to anti-smoking bill
(Source: Orleans Online; Date: May 9, 2005)
A group of east end high school students are proof positive that young people can make a difference, especially when it comes to influencing anti-smoking legislation. Student representatives from eight local high schools travelled to Queen's Park on April 28 armed with 24,000 postcards demanding an end to the use of so-called "power walls" in convenience stores and other establishments that sell cigarettes. Power walls are the banks of cigarettes that can usually be seen on display behind the counter of most convenience stores in Ontario and throughout North America, although they are currently banned in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nunavut. According to statistics, tobacco companies spend upwards of $84 million a year on power walls in Canada, most of which goes to small retailers such as Mac's Milk, Quickie and 7-Eleven stores. Members of Exposé, an anti-smoking awareness program run by the Ottawa Health Department in partnership with the four area school boards, took up the fight against power walls in January. To read more and view photo, click on the link: http://www.orleansonline.ca/pages/N2005050901.htm April 2005 Postcards presented to Minister Jim Watson
Area highschool students engaged in the exposé Program and Carmela Graziani of the Ottawa Council on Smoking and Health present 1,160 post cards to Minister Jim Watson. The post cards, collected from the school community in Minister Watson's riding, support Bill 164, that will make all public places and workplaces in Ontario smoke-free. It also promises to ban point of sale advertising of tobacco products in retail outlets.  January 2005 Tobacco Industry's Challenge Thrown Out
S.T.A.T. Leader Kierston Fu demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court on
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 in support of Saskatchewan's law banning
advertising of cigarettes in stores.
 
Happily the Supreme Court unanimously voted to throw the tobacco industry's challenge out of court. Gazette Article - Quebec primed for full smoking ban
Quebec is heading toward a total ban on smoking in such public places as
restaurants, bars, bingo halls and casinos - possibly as early as this fall
- Health Minister Philippe Couillard said yesterday.
In announcing a fresh round of public consultations on Quebec's tobacco
laws, Couillard said there is a growing social consensus that the days of
smoking in public places are coming to an end because no one can ignore the
effects of secondhand smoke on nonsmokers.
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December 2004 Government of Newfoundland and Labrador commits to smoke-free province
"The time has come to launch a more aggressive attack against tobacco use in
our province - the leading cause of preventable illness and death," said
Minister Ottenheimer.
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November 2004 Health authorities urge governments to tell Canadians the truth about
the tobacco industry
Health agencies joined with medical officers and health experts to urge the
federal government to recognize that the tobacco industry operates outside
the boundaries of normal, ethical business.
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October 2004 Health Canada would deny justice to victims of the tobacco industry's 'light' and 'mild' consumer fraud
British Columbia man faces formidable foe in attempt to obtain certification of a class action lawsuit over the 'light' and 'mild'
cigarette consumer fraud
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September 2004 Wednesday September 23, 2004.
Ottawa City Council approved communication from the City Of Ottawa to the Federal and Ontario Ministers of Health and Long Term Care supporting a federal or provincial law banning cigarette advertising and visible displays of tobacco products in retailer establishments.
Canada Moves Closer to Being a Smokefree Country
New Brunswick and Manitoba Smokefree on October 1
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August 2004 Teen smoking rate drops below that of general population: StatsCan
For the first time in almost a decade teens' smoking rate fell below that of the general population, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
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Third anniversary of Ottawa's Smoke Free Bylaw
The third anniversary of Ottawa's Smoke Free Bylaw marks a gold standard in health protection. Every hospitality industry worker in
the City of Ottawa has enjoyed working in a smoke-free atmosphere and has not had to breathe toxic chemicals contained in
second-hand smoke for the past three years. A study from Laval University has demonstrated that Ottawa hospitality workers are
healthier than their Gatineau counterparts as a result of these smoke-free bylaws. As Alex Munter writes in the Ottawa Citizen on
July 31, 2004, " This lazy, hazy summer long weekend with nary a thought to the smoking bylaw shows that all storms pass."
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S.T.A.T. Youth took to the streets today and placed posters up and down Elgin
Street supporting the ban on powerwalls - to keep them "Out of Sight Out of Mind"!
