The World Bank has pointed out worldwide that the most effective way to reduce smoking is to make tobacco products less affordable, especially to kids and to poor people. People of higher socio-economic status respond to health information and health campaigns; the way you get poorer people and kids to stop smoking is to make the products less affordable. What's stopping the provinces of Quebec and Ontario and the federal government from raising taxes further is the contraband problem from the illegal manufacturing on reserves.
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