Citizens push for implementation of tobacco regulations

A coalition of health groups want the province to stop stalling on measures to protect kids from tobacco.

They are calling for the implementation of legislation that was passed three years ago, aimed at reducing tobacco product sales to minors.

Action on Smoking and Health’s Les Hagen said they thought the NDP were on track to do it after they banned menthol tobacco within 30 days of being in office.

“So, we had every reason to believe that progress was going to continue, and quite frankly, they led everyone to believe that progress was going to continue. But, in the past 20 months there has been absolutely no regulatory movement of tobacco reduction in Alberta,” Hagen said.

Members of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society and the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta gathered outside the Alberta Legislature Monday, along with Action on Smoking and Health to urge the government to implement the legislation.

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