A letter sent from the Health Officers Council of BC to individual board members of the College of Pharmacists: Click here to read the PDF.
Excerpts: "The sale of tobacco in pharmacies is now recognized as an unacceptable ethical and professional contradiction."
"Many institutions within British Columbia have advocated for the elimination of pharmacy tobacco sales, including the Canadian Cancer Society, the BC Lung Association, Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon, and the Health Officers Council of BC. Regulation is overdue and we hope that you will continue to proceed down this path even in the presence of open hostility and opposition from pharmacy (tobacco) retailers and their threats of litigation."