Cancer in a candy-wrapper, the latest ploy of the tobacco industry, is about exploiting loopholes in the Tobacco Act. In an effort to make their deadly products more accessible and appealing, they sell cigarillos as a singles because they are considered cigars –something they can’t do with cigarettes. Cigarillos are cheap and come in all sorts of appealing flavours and packaging with no warning labels! Chew tobacco is also flavoured and marketed to youth in much the same way.  

The latest Canadian statistics on tobacco use shoe cigarillo sales jumped from less than 50,000 units in 2001 to more than 80 million units in 2006-the period when colourful, flavoured products hit the market. Rainy River Record 28.07.2008

 Join with the youth from Thunder Bay, Rainy River and Kenora Districts in their ‘Flavour … Gone!’ campaign, focusing on informing youth and others across Canada about the issue. The goal of the campaign is to have all flavoured tobacco products banned in Canada. Visit http://www.flavourgone.ca/ and take the stand!