Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. Mr. Speaker, a couple of months ago we had an opportunity to meet with representatives from the Cancer Society. They had given us a small briefing, I suppose you could call it, on smoking and possible things that could be implemented in the North, some of which would not cost very much and which could be very helpful particularly to stop children from smoking. We all know how damaging smoking is to people healthwise, people getting cancer, emphysema, that sort of thing and how expensive it is to the government.

One of the suggestions that was made was to ban vending machines in the Northwest Territories. This has been done in Ontario and Nova Scotia. I was wondering if the Minister would consider making it illegal to have vending machines in the North because vending machines, of course, anybody can throw their money into a machine and buy a package of cigarettes, and there is no way of telling how old a person is that is buying the cigarettes. I was wondering if the Minister would consider making it illegal to sell cigarettes through vending machines in the territories? Thank you.

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