Thank you.
Bill C-32, the Cracking Down on Tobacco Marketing Aimed at Youth Act, is an important piece of legislation that will help reduce the likelihood of young people smoking. It is intended to reduce the consumption of tobacco by kids by requiring things like minimum package sizes for little cigars, blunt wraps, and placing a ban on the use of additives that are attractive to youth, including flavours in little cigars, cigarettes, and blunt wraps.
The basic idea is that the tobacco industry consistently innovates in how it puts its products out. It will create products that are more attractive to children by way of the flavours they use, the colour of the packaging, and the size of the packaging so you can buy fewer than 20 cigarettes. A kid or teenager would more easily be able to afford access to cigarettes.
Bill C-32 is meant to deal with all those issues.