Health committee  I believe Freeze the Industry would support the recommendations made by the Canadian Cancer Society. We would support anything that we can do to further get the point across that this is dangerous and that friendly shouldn't be deadly.

Health committee  I think it's important to understand that we are not against smokers; we're against the industry. We want youth and young adults to be informed of how the industry targets them. We we want them to be informed to understand what the product does when used, and we want them to have

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  McMaster's tobacco-free policy means that there are no tobacco products sold on campus and tobacco can't be used on campus. What McMaster is undertaking is that between now and March it's a soft launch, meaning that if people are found to be using tobacco products on campus they

Health committee  Yes. I think it's important to understand that it's not just the tobacco; it's also the nicotine. It's the nicotine that goes to the brain and gets you addicted. It makes you feel good, and then you want another hit and another hit and another hit. So it's important to understand

Health committee  Yes. I'm glad you asked the question because we have some samples of tobacco products here today. We want all packaging to be plain and standard, in that it would have the health warning and be all slide and shell, with no flip top or anything else. All tobacco products would be

Health committee  Yes, I think it would be helpful to know what safer alternatives are out there to use. Obviously, all people can't quit cold turkey. But getting to less than 5% by '35 is not just about getting people to quit smoking—

Health committee  Imagine if an airplane manufacturer sold airplanes that routinely fell out of the sky and killed 45,000 people per year. Surely that would not be normal. There would be an outcry and people would demand that steps be taken to protect the public. That would be normal. That said,