and In 2023, an employer agreed to reimburse its employees $16,660 for tobacco surcharges after a DOL investigation found that the employer had not informed employees about a reasonable alternative standard for avoiding the surcharge
CPHA encourages all jurisdictions: to ban the sale of tobacco products in retail outlets within 500 metres of registered child day-care centres, primary and secondary schools, and encourage all universities and colleges to ban the sale of tobacco products on campus to enact laws ensuring full protection from second-hand smoke in areas where young people gather, especially in school settings including post-secondary institutions CPHA calls upon the public health community: to promote the adoption and use of national cessation guidelines in clinical practice and population-based strategies (CANADAPTT guidelines) to assess opportunities for systematically incorporating brief contact cessation interventions into their existing one-on-one programs and services to collaborate with the tobacco control and economic communities to explore innovative strategies for effective supply side responses for tobacco control CPHA calls on colleges, universities, professional associations, federal, provincial, regional and local governments to work together to build the capacity of health workers by ensuring that tobacco control principles are embedded within core curricula and continuing education offerings and by enhancing tobacco control learning opportunities for both public health and the allied health professions within their curricula
Nicotine replacement therapy is 98% safer than smoking
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