CANADA CASE
February 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA'S three big tobacco firms, Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc., JTI-Macdonald Corp. and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. are involved in a lawsuit in the Quebec Superior Court to challenge the country's federal Tobacco Act that the companies claim infringes their constitutional right of freedom of expression with regard to the advertising of cigarettes. The 1997 Act regulates the manufacture, sale, labelling and promotion of tobacco products. The case is expected to last until next autumn.
CANADA'S three big tobacco firms, Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc., JTI-Macdonald Corp. and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. are involved in a lawsuit in the Quebec Superior Court to challenge the country's federal Tobacco Act that the companies claim infringes their constitutional right of freedom of expression with regard to the advertising of cigarettes. The 1997 Act regulates the manufacture, sale, labelling and promotion of tobacco products. The case is expected to last until next autumn.
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.