The Smoke-Free Ontario Act

Peter Goodhand is the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division. He says his organization has been doing a lot of work already in attempts to complement this important piece of legislation.

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Michael Perley is director of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco. He's one of close to a dozen members of Health and Long-Term Care Minister Geogre Smitherman's "Campaign Cabinet", to advise the Minister as the province's Smoke-Free Ontario campaign moves forward. Perley says one of the cabinet's goals is to educate the public on some myths surrounding the tobacco industry.

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Michelle Tham has been a smoke-free campaigner from a very early age. Last year, she and a group of young people created Stupid.ca, a multimedia project including a website and television spots, to educate young people about how "stupid" smoking really is.

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Dr. Ted Boadway is with the Ontario Medical Association, a group that has been lobbying for more than 20 years to see the type of legislation that passed today become reality. He says the legislation, once it becomes law on May 31, 2006, will accomplish several goals.

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