GC31 Use and Advertising of Tobacco (1986U712)

THAT The United Church of Canada

1. SUPPORT all efforts to discourage smoking in work places, public buildings and all forms of public transportation, and ask local congregations to encourage and support such efforts in their communities;
2. URGE all levels of government and the media industry to ban the advertising of tobacco products in Canada; and
3. ENCOURAGE federal and provincial governments to enable farmers and workers to change to other means of livelihood.

GC31 1986 ROP, pp. 134, 681