The Chief Medical Officer of Health for the region says he has mixed reaction to extra money being provided by the province for the Ontario Smoke-free campaign.
The program will be getting 50 million dollars this year,
which is a 66 percent increase from last year.
Dr. Pete Sarsfield says the two million dollars set aside for aboriginal smoking prevention programs just isn’t enough.
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Sarsfield adds that 7.7 million dollars set aside for public health units is welcome and greatly needed.
He expects most of that funding will be used for inspections.
