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Operation Get the Lead Out
Canadian Smoker's Take Back Their Power!!!!
Canadians Want their Voice Heard
Canadians are tired of being not heard. Here is a way that you can make your voice heard and your opinion known. Gather up all the empty cigarette packs, cigar packs, cigar bands and pipe tobacco packages you can and mail them to the Minister of Health for Canada at the following address. It's free to mail them to your MP if you prefer, you don't need a stamp.
You could also mail some to your local M.P.P., Provincial Premier and Health Minister. Mail is not free to MPP's and MLA's, you may want to check for your own province and territory as this could vary. They have to hear our voice too!!
If you want you could also inform them why you are doing this drastic measure. In order for the government to listen to the smokers. Please put "OPERATION GET THE LEAD OUT" on the package, sign them and put your province on them. If you wish to put your address on them, also request a reply.
Minister's Office-Health Canada,
Brooke Claxton Bldg, Tunneys Pasture,
P.L. 0906C
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9
Attn Tony Clement-Health Minister
We are also strongly encouraging people to write to the Auditor General of Canada and request an audit of all monies paid to the anti-smoking movement and all monies spent on the "denormalization" campaign against smokers in Canada.
Auditor General of Canada contact info.
If you are not motivated enough to mail in your empty packs then you might want to just give Fibber McGuinty a call. The phone number is 416-325-7245 and the fax is 416-325-0803. Yes, you may
not be able to have a smoke in many places in Ontario (and pretty soon in any place in Ontario) but you can call Premier Dalton McGuinty directly and let him know what you think. There are 1.5 million smokers in Ontario, wouldn't it be nice for him to hear from us all.
Suggestions for Messages on the Empty Cigarette Packs
I smoke and I vote.
I support Canadian Tobacco Farmers and Workers.
Lower the taxes on cigarettes.
I remember when Ban was an underarm deodorant.
I have a pit bull that smokes, these are from him.
Tell Canadians exactly how much taxation is placed on a package of cigarettes.
I am being harassed and threatened by the government funded Anti- Smoking movement for the presumed consumption of a legal product.
Stop funding the Anti-Smoking Movement or give Smokers the same funding to fight back. Level the playing field.
Tell Canadians the truth about Heather Crowe.
Cigarettes are a legal product, stop promoting the social exclusion of ordinary Canadians who consume them.
I saw an anti-smoking ad and it made me want to have a cigarette. Your campaign promotes smoking.
Stop funding the Anti-Smoking movement who promote hatred and abuse against Smokers. Smokers are a 20% minority in Canada and do not have Visible Minority protection from Hate Crimes , Exclusion or Discrimination. Give Visible Minority rights to Smokers.
Canadian businesses have the right to choose to be smoking or non- smoking.
Stop hurting small business owners in Canada with repressive bans.
Cigarettes do not cause impairment.
My Canada includes Freedom of Choice.
Kiss My Ashtray!!!!!
Ban Banning.
Smokers have the right to be respected and included.
I don't want to live in a Nanny State.
Stop workplace discrimination against smokers.
I am writing the Auditor General to ask for an audit on the monies spent by the government on the Anti-Smoking Denormalization Campaign.
My Canada is free.
Leave our veterans and our military alone. If they would lay down their lives for our country and face harm, they can smoke if they want too. Leave their clubs alone.
Stop creating more divisions in our society. Legislating exclusion sets a dangerous precedent. You are legislating the right to bully, harass, intimidate and humiliate. Leave smokers alone.
Operation Smoking Gun - Let's Ask for an Audit!!!
Some Interesting Facts about Smoking
You Can Also Sign This Online Petition
- Stop Hate Crimes and Social Exclusion of Smokers in Canada
