junc 1971
STATEI-U.-*.N'r BY VALA. VA-Z, OF CV:ALJIA~.'
-fUh:.CCO N;,:;UFAcrum--:zs_
COLT'NICII., :Ind FRZSlD-I,;T 07 VILMLAL T0:L%C^,O
PRODUCTS LID.'
On b~hal[ oC the m:-ai~crs of the Cana,i-inn
To~--cco HnnufacLu'.-OZ S Council, I
can szy that althoo~,h we c-.--.pccVrd
lnjfnla~ion, i-:c are, nevertheless.
concerned with the scope ~-nd implications of the
IcLislation which his been
Proposed.
For more than eight years and at Wo officill
conferences with L;ovcrnV-'nt
health 'aULh0:iLiCS, OLIC POZiti(M in t!i(:
C;:-.okin,, and Health conc,.ovcrzy has
been mac!c clear. You are a-.,~--rc that -.:c
o.,:c confronted with an LndictMeLIC
which is b.:sc:d cn szlc--'zz--'cs cric! acccp,-cd
as fact by virtue of
many years of rc,)ctit:-.ou.. Vic iss,.jc
cz,-.LALnuc.- to be a subjec: of
controversy amor.-T SCICnLifiz; 0:zp.-,:-:1~. !
enn aSS..-o You, hcwavc:-, that
the tobacco will czncin-.;:~ t-- Which
is Lhe only way ch-z controvccsy c:!n be icaically
resolved.
Now, about the proposed legislation: -:,I CMost
pUnitive clemencs in this
Bill are those which rcsc.-iz,. 3ccep--ad",
r---rkecin,, practices.
The wisdom of such leZ;islatLon =y be quc.---Loned
on scvcral counts:
First, experience of other countries whIch have
sintUar restriccZons
indicates that chase have little or no cLcfect on
reducin,; smoking.
Paradoxically, tha total nu.n!,cr of smo%ed
continues to incrc'Ise.
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2 . This K"! I "j-'I I t-Let coin-)%zL tiun.
!noriZ;
are cn,~nScd ill narkctin-.- a lc-Loii pro6k,cc
in,i, thcarcf0re, expec't to nave
available' the nov,xil, aurkctiu~ t001S to do so.
The "status quo" of
comptinics will tend to be frozen, at Icast in the
short tgrm, and the
difficulLie.- oL- introducizi~; new br.:nds
bccc)r.-.,- 3rcicar in the coz-?c:icive
markctplacc.
3. The Bill lins ~-criolis Lct)7.o.--lic impl
;.cations. The Ineurscry spends abcu~:
$25 millioa ou all foCtIS r-~ in Cann,!a. I.Iien
this fiL;-,-:c is
trinsla.Lvd into or ponple, and into .-oods and
services, it
becom2s obvious :!iac rcsLrictioas oil this
icLiviLy are bound to rcSLIIZ in
hirdships C,) People -;Il the. niark-..:~in,~
ficld ill Canada.
4. The for :ho C~;bacco ccri be scrious and
The fact slizot yz-,i to zppccc-....tc for
yoursclvcs socz of C-2 ac,-oc-.
in tobacco a6ric,!:ure --;~,.ich are placLd in
jeopzirdy.
~Ct- me concludc ~-y sayi;iL zhjt I an
convinccd-thc industry =5-intain
its vi3or bcci,.-s-2 so:-.2 s:-:c million n,lult
Czn,,dians continue to an,-c7
ciZaretca sm.-ukin, their own Pcrr:mal reasons of
relaxation and cnjoyn2nt.
We atanufacturers -will cortinue to operate within
whaCevcr mar-ctin~; frzmcwort-
is left to us.
it goes without sayinG thrt, when Fzrliar=nt has
spo~cn, we will obey the
law even thou.T!,. we conLinuc to que-stion the
prcruse on which it Is based.
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