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Cynthia Callard

Cynthia Callard is the executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. 

Fifty years apart, Trudeau governments prefer tobacco harm reduction to protective laws

Opinion | BY CYNTHIA CALLARD | June 15, 2023
John Munro, left, pictured at a Liberal fundraiser in the 1960s, was prime minister Pierre Trudeau's health minister in the 1970s. In 1971, he introduced a law to ban cigarette advertising and regulated packaging, but abandoned it shortly afterwards, writes Cynthia Callard. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY CYNTHIA CALLARD | June 15, 2023
Opinion | BY CYNTHIA CALLARD | June 15, 2023
John Munro, left, pictured at a Liberal fundraiser in the 1960s, was prime minister Pierre Trudeau's health minister in the 1970s. In 1971, he introduced a law to ban cigarette advertising and regulated packaging, but abandoned it shortly afterwards, writes Cynthia Callard. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons