Dear Diary: \u0027When people refuse to heed the dangers of tobacco use, we must conclude they are motivated entirely by ignorance\u0027
The science is settled on the dangers of tobacco use. When people refuse to heed this information, as health professionals we must conclude they are motivated entirely by ignorance, indolence or both.If only tobacco was our only national addiction crisis. But alas, we also face a devastating problem with drug toxicity deaths. This is why Health Canada and its partner agencies are also pioneering the world’s most comprehensive program of harm reduction.
And stay tuned for our pilot project of requiring Naloxone kits and training as a condition of accessing public transit or other civic services. The average Canadian will soon see Naloxone kits as an ever-present accessory no different than a wallet or keys, and the act of chemically bringing a drug user back from the brink of death as being a quotidian civic expectation no different than helping an old woman across the street.
Just the other day, I saw a man ignite a cigarette on his own third-floor balcony, seemingly oblivious that there was a schoolyard filled with children a mere 800 meters away. As I watched cloud after cloud of invisible carcinogenic particles descend on these unsuspecting post-neonates, it only deepened my resolve to strengthen Canada’s unpardonably lax rules surrounding designated smoking areas.
These tales of outrage are legion. Coffee shops ejecting customers who light up a bowl of crack on their patio. Big box stores lighting their bathrooms blue in order to dissuade injection drug use. Convenience store managers calling law enforcement merely because a drug user has reacted negatively to a batch of methamphetamines and begun attacking the front window.
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