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Published on July 10, 2008 10:20 AM

Last year about 200,000 citizens of Quebec stopped smoking but the tobacco companies continue to attract young generation with flavored cigarettes.

Dr. Alain Poirier said “The industry just doesn't seem to understand. It should reinvent itself and go into marketing fruit, not masking their product with fruit”.

Under the Quebec Public Health Department decision, consumption of cigarillos and cigars increases among high school students. In 2006, according to the survey, about 1 student in 5 (22 %) smoked one of these products.

Quebec's director of public health claims “Tobacco companies are trying to lure youngsters into smoking by using flavored cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos”.

The part of Japan Tobacco Inc., JTI Macdonald Corp., produces new cigarettes with a touch of alcohol and food flavors.

There are between 75,000 and 80,000 children in 12 year of age experiment with smoking without thinking this is the vulnerable age.

Mireille Deyglun, Quebec actress, is a spokeslady for the anti-smoking week, knows the dangers of tobacco. Her brother, father, and two cousins died of lung cancer, and she smoked from the age of 12 before giving up in 1996 at the age of 37. She said “I know how difficult it is to stop”. She quitted this habit, partly because of her dead relatives, but also because she has two teenage children. She added “And my son says he smokes from time to time”.

The tobacco companies always invent various ways to lure youth, because by law they have no rights to sell tobacco products to young people.

According to the Canadian researchers the risk of heart attack was equally serious whether tobacco is chewed smoked or used in a water pipe.

The Quebec Government finances programs assigning $ 20 million a year to help people quit smoking.