6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health Resolution

Ann Royer presented the following resolution during the closing plenary of the Sixth National Conference on Tobacco or Health:

6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health Resolution

The 6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health resolves that the next National Strategy be developed expeditiously and that the Strategy:

• looks to short-term and long-term time horizons;

• builds on previous National Strategies;

• meaningfully engages governments, non-government organizations, health professionals, academia, consumers and other Canadians;

• ensures sustained tobacco control funding proportional to the burden from tobacco use, and proportional to the tobacco tax revenues raised;

• utilizes a comprehensive approach that includes effectively addressing initiation (especially youth), providing support to consumers, reducing exposure to tobacco smoke, and controlling the tobacco industry, and;

• includes effective action on contraband, implementation of plain/standardized packaging, and implementation of a robust mass media campaign that lays the groundwork with Canadians for adoption of effective tobacco control measures.

Montreal, Quebec

November 4, 2009