Annotated Bibliography: Cigarette Smoking Bans

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Sissi Zheng
Annotated Bibliography
A) Overview Article
Bibliography
Renneboog, R. M. (2016). Cigarette Smoking Bans: An Overview. Canadian Points Of View: Cigarette Smoking Bans, 1.
Summary
Smoking tobacco has been a contentious issue ever since explorers brought tobacco leaves to Europe from the New World in the sixteenth century. In the 1960s, scientific reports conclusively linked cigarette smoking with certain forms of cancer. Despite this, anti-smoking legislation was virtually non-existent in Canada until the 1990s. Today, all areas of the country have legislation in place restricting the use of tobacco and very few allow smoking in public places, while others have banned it entirely. Anti-tobacco lobbyists say that while a lot of progress has been made, there are a number of areas that still need attention. Most Aboriginal reservations are considered exempt from smoking legislation. Many reservations and their surrounding areas are home to populations where 80 per cent of adolescents between the ages of fifteen and nineteen are regular smokers. In addition, since the introduction of smoking legislation, there has been an ongoing multibillion dollar battle between the big tobacco companies and the government. Tobacco companies feel that restrictions on the way they advertise, package and distribute their product is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Many companies have brought their cases to the attention of the Supreme Court of Canada with …show more content…

degree at The University of Western Ontario in 1983 and has since studied at University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, and at Loyalist College, in Belleville, Ontario. He has been actively involved with both Catholic and public education in the Province of Ontario since 1995, serving on school councils at the elementary, secondary and district levels, and representing publicly-funded Catholic education in the provincial

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