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Anti-tobacco advocates argue that sends a conflicting message to people - especially youths - who go to drug stores for health products and counselling. The issue will be discussed at a meeting Tuesday between B.C. Health Minister George Abbott and the B.C. and Yukon branch of the Canadian Cancer Society. B.C. is not just being left behind nationally, but internationally as well, said society spokeswoman Kathryn Seely. "It is a conflict of interest for pharmacists to sell an addictive drug which makes people sick and at the same time sell medications to make people better," she said in a statement. "Outside of Canada, it's practically unheard of that pharmacies would sell cigarettes." Six Canadian provinces (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the Northwest Territories and Nunavut) have prohibited tobacco sales in pharmacies. Alberta passed a law last year that will make the sale of tobacco illegal in pharmacies or other health centres on Jan. 1, 2009. Longtime anti-smoking advocate and pharmacist Bev Harris has campaigned against allowing pharmacies to sell tobacco products for more than a decade. She sometimes sounds discouraged. "We started this in B.C. a long time ago," she said. During her campaign, the B.C. College of Pharmacists passed a motion urging a tobacco ban in drug stores. The college congratulated the Health Ministry in June 2007 for limiting tobacco advertising, but urged the government to implement a regulation creating "tobacco free pharmacies." While the organization representing pharmacists wants tobacco banned, the B.C. Pharmacists Association, representing businesses, supports only a voluntary withdrawal from retail outlets that contain pharmacies. No one from the association was prepared to speak on this issue Friday, but its website contains a "tobacco position statement." The association opposes regulations targeting retail outlets containing pharmacies. It said such operations don't sell tobacco in areas considered the "pharmacy area." NDP Health critic Adrian Dix said his party remains in favour of a ban. "It's simply inconsistent with the ideal of the pharmacy and the pharmacists as part of a health centre." © Copyright 2006 by CigarettesOn.Com |
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