When he announced the tax cut, then-Prime Minister Jean Chrtien attempted to balance the public health risk with some new anti-tobacco policies, including removing the shelf-appeal of cigarettes by making the packages ugly
(Just to shake off the road rust and snap his head back on straight, he asked Brasserie Perrier's executive chef, Chris Scarduzio, for a kitchen tour
The act did, though, instruct the agency to continue to weigh whether to ban menthol
One anti-smoking group, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, described the approach as one of the deadliest consumer frauds of our time. By the early 2000s, governments began banning such deceptive marketing
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