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Smoke-free Ontario Act taking
effect May 31 in .Huron County
Huron County - In less than 30 days, the
Smoke Free Ontario Act takes effect!
This means all Ontario workers will work in
a safe, healthy and smoke-free workplace as
of May 31. The law includes bar, restaurant,
bingo, and casino workers.
The Smoke -Free Ontario Act also puts more
limits on retail promotion of tobacco products.
A display ban starts May 31, 2008.
As in the past, anyone purchasing tobacco
products must be over the age of 19. Tobacco
sellers must see ID to make sure a purchaser
is over 19.
"Our smoke-free strategy makes us a leader
in North America by creating safer smoke-
free environments, preventing young people
from _starting to smoke and assisting smokers
to quit," says health promotion minister Jim
Watson.
"The legislation will protect workers and
the public from exposure to second-hand
smoke and it will help to ensure that young
people don't pick up this deadly addiction,"
says Dr. Sheela Basrur, , Ontario's chief med-
ical officer of health.
As the smoke-free countdown continues, the
Huron County Health Unit is helping the
community prepare for the new Act.
"Huron County has been a leader in smoke
free communities through the county -wide
smoke free bylaw," says Linda Stobo. Stobo is
supervisor of the health unit's tobacco pro-
gram.
Huron County's Environmental Tobacco
Smoke (ETS) By-law has been in effect since
Sept. 4, 2004. This by-law makes all enclosed
public places and workplaces smoke; free.
The Smoke -Free Act will not cancel existing
municipal by-laws. The Act setsminimum
standards for municipal tobacco cantrol across
Ontario.
Smoking is the number one preventable
cause of premature death and illness in
Ontario. It costs more than $1 billion per year
in direct health care costs.
Research shows there is no safe level of
exposure to first- or second-hand smoke.
The health unit will send out a Smoke Free
package to Huron County workplaces, retail-
ers and public places in mid-May.
For more information about the Smoke Free
Ontario Act, call the Huron County Health
Unit at (519) 482-3416, or toll-free 1-877-837-
6143.
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