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Objectives
Short term objectives
- Smoke-free multi-unit dwellings
- Eliminating tobacco sales in pharmacies
- Divesting public pension fund tobacco holdings including BCIMC and CPP
- Increasing cigarette taxes
- Increased efforts in fighting contraband tobacco
- Making tobacco possession and use illegal for minors
- Eliminating Duty-Free tobacco sales
- Implement a deposit-return program to eliminate butt litter
- Increase governmental anti-tobacco fundingĀ
- Reduce secondhand smoke exposure by a province-wide ban on smoking in parks, playgrounds, beaches, busy commercial streets, and all other outdoor gathering areas
- Ban smoking in movies, TV shows and music videos shown in BC
- Increase enforcement of current anti-tobacco laws and bylaws
- Establishing a regulatory environment for the sale and use of electronic cigarettes
Long term objective
- The end of the tobacco industry