• Summer 2010 – The Flavour...GONE! Team reunites to refocus on spit tobacco. The website changes. The Facebook group changes. A new petition is circulated. Youth across Ontario are given the chance to weigh in on the Ontario Cigarillo legislation, which is pretty much a provincial version of Bill C-32. We ask the Standing Committee on Health to make good on our initial request and their promise to deal with flavours in chew and spit tobacco products.
  • October 8th, 2009 – Bill C-32: the Cracking Down on Tobacco Marketing Aimed at Youth Act was given Royal Ascent... Without Spit tobacco...

    Kenora MP Greg Rickford mentions the Flavour... GONE! campaigns important contribution to Bill C-32
  • July 28th, 2009 – Sioux Lookout youth make a mural dedicated to the Flavour...GONE! Website. Awesome work!
  • June 2009 – the Flavour...GONE! Team gets wind that there is a chance to meet with the Standing Committee on Health at Parliament to plea our case of the importance of adding spit tobacco to Bill C-32: the Cracking Down on Tobacco Marketing Aimed at Youth Act. A few days later, on June 9th, 2009, 4 youth from the northwestern region of Ontario jumped a plane to Ottawa to meet with their colleague there to speak with the Standing Committee. Catherine Kiewning, Sam McKibbon and Jeffery Satchwill, the original co-organizers of the Flavour...GONE! Campaign, put their heads together to make a presentation about the truth of chew use amoung youth that was so powerful, it received a very rare round of applause from the Committee members. We are extremely pleased with the support from across Ontario and must send a big thank you out to all those who attended our first rally in Winnipeg and the Hearing in Ottawa!
    • Cigarillos come in similar packaging and flavours as lip gloss and gum.Chew tins are brightly colour (to show off their flavourings) so they blend in easily with candy.
  • We are making great progress with tobacco control strategies. However, we need federal regulation on flavoured tobacco to continue to fight for the health of Canadian youthby preventing tobacco related illnesses.
  • The market of flavoured tobacco and novelty tobacco products has grown over 400 per cent. In 2001 there were 50,000 units being sold. In 2006 there was over 81 million. All these were targeted at Canada’s youth.
  • On July 24th we held a press conference at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg to launch their Flavour...GONE! campaign and website to ask the federal government to ban flavoured tobacco products in Canada. The Press Conference was well attended by local Winnipeg media outlets and following the Press Conference the youth went out the begin their Street Campaign handing out palmcards and buttons to those they passed. We were joined by Thunder Bay's Youth as well as Manitoba's MYCA and STAND.

Check out the video of the press conference and street rally below! (and check out the List of Supporters tab if you want to know what all those acronyms mean)



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