While growing tobacco for personal use is not explicitly illegal, it is crucial to recognise that the governments main goal is to discourage tobacco consumption altogether
WATCH | Canadian smokers in 1988 unimpressed with cigarette warning labels: It hurts the wallet, because it costs $400, $500 a month, Lincourt said
Higher-ups in the tobacco industry would even go so far as to take ethnic field trips to Black areas and pass out free menthol cigarettes
Research has shown that smoking during pregnancy causes many health problems for both mothers and babies, such as infertility, placental rupture, abnormal placental implantation, preterm premature rupture of membrane (PPROM) or early rupture of the amniotic sac membrane, premature birth, stillbirth, low-birth-weight infant, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
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