Public Safety committee  Certainly. There are three aspects to Bill C-32. The easiest one I'll point to is advertising in weekly and daily publications that youth could pick up at the vending boxes on street corners. Advertising in all Canadian publications for tobacco is now banned. That's the easy st

Public Safety committee  You're absolutely correct. The flavours mask the taste of the nicotine and the taste of cigarette, so whether or not they go on to other cigarettes or other products, it's the nicotine that is still hooking them in the little cigarette or the little cigar and moving them to want

Public Safety committee  Smoking rates in the adult population are actually down. Based on our Canadian tobacco use monitoring survey, it's at 18% of the Canadian population, which is just under five million who are smoking now. In the 15- to 17-year-olds, about 10% of the population are smoking. I don't

Public Safety committee  In the regular population...?

Public Safety committee  Certainly, there are some indications that wholesale cigarette sales have actually been up for the legal sales of tobacco from last year. We don't know, it's only one point of reference we have, so we would have to monitor it over the next couple of years to see if that stays the