T bacco group hits at
,.Air Canada smoldng ban
.BY 1111WARD SIMON IN TORONTO
CANAD.4:S biggest tobacco
company has ordered Its 3.OW
emploFfts to avoid t ravel I in
an,AIr Canada In the wake of
the State-owned airline's deci-
-.non to ban smoking on some of
Its most popular Allhu. '
. Imperial Tobacco of Montreal.
*bose parent company Imasto
is controlled by Britain's UT
'IfidustrieL has told Air Canada
that the airline will be used In
future as 'the carrier of last
resurt' by Imperial employees
-211d linswo head ofte staff.
Employees base also been told
to -now using the airline's credit
c3rd.
The policy will be reviewed
at the end of Air Canada's
three-month experiment ba&
min% oil smo!zin-. an WI of its i
76 daily rights between Toronto.
Ottawa and 11 I
The airline took the step
after determining that half its
smoking passengers approved
of stncter rules, it only to help
them vivo up cigarettes.
An Imperial Tobacto official
said Air Canada's policy is
'unfair to smoktt% I by un-
necessarily restricting their
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BAIT Industries document for Province of British Columbia 12 April 1999