Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to thank the Member for his comments about the no-smoking campaign and acknowledge his success, as well as the fact of the injury that he suffered as he attempted to take the message out to his young constituents above and beyond the call of duty. Mr. Chairman, there have been many good minds working on how to deal with alcohol, which is a different substance, clearly, than tobacco and it's one that is heavily advertised, for example, on TV with sporting events. If you want to go to parties and be with handsome men or beautiful women, if you have a bottle of beer in your hand, chances are you'll be there, be it Budweiser or any other kind of drink. So it's very difficult; it requires a different strategy. I'm very interested in trying to turn our attention to that because I agree that the ravages of alcohol and the collateral damage that alcohol causes far outweighs that of smoking, even though smoking kills more people directly. So we're looking at ways of trying to do that, but we don't have a campaign as effective yet as the one that's currently underway with the butthead campaign. We'd be very interested in thoughts and suggestions and recommendations of how we can better do that particular campaign to ensure that people either don't drink or they try to drink responsibly. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 16th, 2005
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