35% of Grade 10 to 12 students smoked

[ar223]

Read this accouple days back and was wondering what you thought. Am I wrong, but are cigarillos marketed to the younger portion of the public? It seems those flavours were meant to lure them. I partially agree for the ban on the flavoured cigarillos but at what point will it end, is this even a solution?

My summary

The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a government ban on flavoured cigarillos after a national youth smoking survey found a significant proportion of teens have at least experimented with the product.

“They come in very colourful packages and flavours that are very enticing to kids — vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, mint, peach, raspberry and so on,” Cunningham said today.

“And it’s a product category that’s simply exploded on the market,” he said, noting that Health Canada figures show that unit sales of cigarillos skyrocketed to more than 80 million units in 2006 from just 50,000 units five years earlier.

The 2006-2007 Youth Smoking Survey by the University of Waterloo, released today, found that 35 per cent of Grade 10 to 12 students reported having tried “cigars, cigarillos and little cigars.”

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/447597

[Charlie Br0wn™]

Let's be fucking honest...

...the Canadian Cancer Society isn't against the bad health these kids are gonna get. It's attacking the cigar company through such a cop-out median.

If it cared AT ALL about the health of Canadians...it wouldn't just single out 'kids'...there would be a ban on cigarettes permanently. These things aren't just unhealthy to the ones smoking it...but the ones who are surrounded in that atmosphere.

The best move done at all...so far...has been the ban on smoking indoors. That's been the BEST move so far. Because it creates inconvenience to the individuals who didn't take into consideration that the rest of us don't wish to breathe in toxic fumes as they do.

All these little 'surveys' and 'speeches' and 'call to arms' by the CCS is just a fucking show.

"Oh no flavoured cigarillos are bad!"

...and what? Normal cigars are good?

[ar223]

Let's be fucking honest...

...the Canadian Cancer Society isn't against the bad health these kids are gonna get. It's attacking the cigar company through such a cop-out median.

If it cared AT ALL about the health of Canadians...it wouldn't just single out 'kids'...there would be a ban on cigarettes permanently. These things aren't just unhealthy to the ones smoking it...but the ones who are surrounded in that atmosphere.

The best move done at all...so far...has been the ban on smoking indoors. That's been the BEST move so far. Because it creates inconvenience to the individuals who didn't take into consideration that the rest of us don't wish to breathe in toxic fumes as they do.

All these little 'surveys' and 'speeches' and 'call to arms' by the CCS is just a fucking show.

"Oh no flavoured cigarillos are bad!"

...and what? Normal cigars are good?

The ban of cigarettes out right would be difficult but advocating this move is easier since they have "just cause" its all for the children.

[GTP]

fuck smoking, food they need to start banning food. I'm tired of seeing this fat fucks and hyperventilating muh fuckas. They need to crack on these fast food chains with all that reused oil and grease more than the tobacco companies.

[theLOVEDone]

Its much harder for the CCS to ban tobacco than it is to prevent future generations from beginning the habit. I guess they figured adults have been smoking for many many years, so why bother wasting money to try to convince them to stop (when they've already ruined their organs anyway) and focus on the newer generations that still have a chance.

[True_Bacon22]

yeah the ones who can give organs to those older ones with cancer
muwahahah.....

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[82643827468734]

Whatever this thread is about, I blame it on black people.

[l0sst]

yanno got damn good and well they arent smoking them
using them to roll blunts