Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the question because it gives us a chance to ensure that everyone knows what the facts are in this issue.
Epidemiology is a system of ensuring that the demographics and all things that make a disease occur are checked out. When we set about our strategy for tobacco we ensured there were four parts of a survey that would be done by Statistics Canada to look at evaluating the strategy.
The third part of the survey came out recently. It has shown that there are 150,000 fewer smokers in Canada right now. We will continue our strategy because this is not a good enough response. We want to be ensured that all people who currently smoke stop and those who intend to will eventually never do so. We are still plugging away at our strategy.