• To profile tobacco control progress under the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy
• To examine leading tobacco control initiatives and best practices in other jurisdictions
• To make tobacco a priority issue among health professionals and the broader community
• To highlight tobacco control research
• To link research, program and policy
• To strengthen the tobacco control network in Ontario
• To ensure issues pertaining to Youth, Aboriginals and Francophones are addressed and to empower all attendees with knowledge and tools to effectively engage in tobacco control
• To map the future course of tobacco control in Ontario

Organizing Committee

Tiiu Ambus, Ministry of Health Promotion
Vonnie Barron, Ontario Tobacco-Free Network (OTN)
Josie d’Avernas, Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC), Conference Chair
Beverley Else, Media Network for a Smoke-Free Ontario
Joey Fox, Aboriginal Tobacco Strategy, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)
Lorraine Fry, Smoking and Health Action Foundation (SHAF), Co-Chair
Trevor Haché, Non-Smokers' Rights Association (NSRA)
Jocelyne Koepke, Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC)
Karen McLean, Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC)
Anne Meloche, Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC)
Paula Stanghetta, Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC)
Lauren Wolff, Media Network for a Smoke-Free Ontario

Justine Fields, Conference Coordinator

Thank you to our Sponsors

* refers to commercial tobacco control and not to the medicinal or spiritual use of tobacco in aboriginal communities