Posted at 9:00 a.m.
One step forward, two steps back
I am totally against; one step forward, two steps back. Like alcohol, tobacco is harmful to health, we know that. So, it will be necessary to legislate for alcohol as well. It is up to us to educate our young people with relentless advertising campaigns.
Celine Boissonneault
Why procrastinate?
Like New Zealand, let’s simply ban the sale of this highly addictive poison. For smokers, quitting is only a matter of weeks, after all. Smuggling and organized crime will always exist and their existence should not prevent us from adopting sound public health measures.
Christian Castonguay
nothing to do with age
The appeal of cigarettes has nothing to do with age. We try at 15 to feel great and nicotine convinces us to continue. We try at 25 in a party and we find it fun, often under the influence of a drink or two! What matters is at what age we will stop, before or after the cancer! The lived…
Nicole Audette
21%
Instead of putting it at 21, let’s raise the price by 21%, it’s going to be more efficient.
Christian Livernoche
Promote quit smoking products
I believe that raising the age for buying cigarettes is not enough. Increasing the cost of cigarettes (as in other countries around the world), making smoking cessation products more accessible and banning smoking indoors in the presence of a child are measures, in my opinion, that would further protect the population of this scourge.
Brigitte Croteau
Harmonize with the SQDC
We must continue the fight against tobacco addiction, this scourge of public health…one step at a time. But this new measure would also have to be adjusted with access to the SQDC, for obvious reasons. Signed a grateful ex-smoker.
Michele Fafard
Health tax
Yes at 21. And a health tax based on the increase in health costs in Quebec.
Gerald Pilon
be convincing
There are enough prohibitions… let’s continue with what we have. I am a non-smoker and I try to respectfully convince those who smoke to quit… At home, smoking “anything” is prohibited.
Claude Provencher
An effect on… circulation
I don’t think raising the legal smoking age to 21 is a good idea. I live not far from an aboriginal territory, full of marijuana shops, and I can tell you that they are full of young people who have come to get what the SQDC refuses them. This will only increase car traffic in my surroundings!
Edith Lemery Frenette, Saint-Placide
Haro on control
Please do not give new ideas of controlling our lives to the CAQ. She already controls more than enough.
Alain Vachon
Yes, yes and yes
I am currently in Brittany and to my surprise, there are still ashtrays on all the tables on the terraces. My daughter is dating a Breton, and her two sisters smoke cigarettes! Beautiful young women in their 20s with college degrees! I do not understand anything. So, yes, 21, please.
Lise Plante
Information campaigns
I do not believe that the minimum age is at the heart of the debate. I advocate more information campaigns that explain diseases and health risks. Our police officers have enough work to do without adding the task of identifying smokers. As long as tobacco products are legal, discretion rests with the user. Awareness and information are at the heart of success. I am a non-smoker, having never smoked in my life.
Jean-Francois Larente
The peace !
The majority is 18, so they’re adults, leave them alone.
Denis Desjardins
From summer theater
It would be the most imbecile law that Quebec would have passed. Ineffective and stupid law. Young people are already smoking jar for at least 20 years. I think it would be a law to make people laugh like in a summer play. Honestly, what toto thought of that? Surely he had nothing to do.
Claire Malo