2026-05-31 from cbc.ca

Should you still be able to buy cigarettes in British Columbia drugstores?

It's a question that prompted a testy exchange in the B.C. Legislature earlier this week.

"Cigarette smoke has over 70 known carcinogens in it," anti-smoking advocate Leo Levasseur told CBC's On the Island on Wednesday. "Is this something that should be sold in a drugstore?"

Ontario banned tobacco sales in pharmacies in 1994, and the other provinces and territories have since followed suit. When Manitoba implemented a ban in 2013, B.C. became the last province in Canada to allow the practice.

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