I think the fundamental point of the importance of marketplace surveillance is really important, so the successor to the “Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey”. Governments and health organizations use that very good data. How are things changing in the youth smoking survey? Are kids picking this up? Are there people who have never smoked? Are there former smokers who have relapsed? Is there no change? What are the patterns? We need fundamental information to inform policy-making and to make adjustments.
On October 30th, 2014. See this statement in context.