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-tHE:-g QPP-_AND' J L;
.1 on advertising
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Of cigarefs shel'ved
The federal b;1I to ban all sues rc I,, to smo n
kig and
advertising of cigarets iotro- health. and (the Heal De-
duced more than a vear ago partment) has expressed an
bas been shelved, according interest in seeing a warning
to an- official ip Health MiDisr -label @n 4vertising,.Ilie man-
ter John -Alurfro's office. -duturcl-i are- Rxam' Ing- 4
"The bill %was unpopular," such a step."
the spokesman said. "It hit
the tobacco people and the
mtmbers representing to-
baccD areas hard."
. The spokesman stressed
that the bill, which was al-
lowed to die on the order pa.
per in the last session of Par.
ament, has not been killed,
but that no moves are being
made to reintroduce it.
'He said the decision to hold
the bill in abeyance is in re-
sponse to the actions of the
cigaret manufacturers who
voluntarily adopted some of
the requirements that would
have been made law by the
bill. The elimination of broad-
cast advertising and the print-
Ing of a health warning on
eigaret. packages were the
most significant moves.
In tYe Commons on lVednes.
day, Mr. Munro said the
Health Department is consid-
ering requiring the inclusion of
a health warning in print me-
dia cigaret advertisements.
Paul Fare, president of Im-
asco W. and chairman of the
Canadian Tobacco Manutic-
turers Council, said the indus-
is zi .,;arc 6. x-@,-, L-
try i (@
ml t's desire thit t;-.e kV a rn-
ing be included in advertise-
ments.
- "We are working with the
Government on a series of is-'
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