Accordingly, CPHA makes the following recommendations for action: CPHA calls on the federal government: • to implement all of the provisions of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and related guidelines to the highest degree possible, including fulfilling its obligations to global tobacco control, and • to implement and fund fully on an annual and consistent basis an adequately-reso [...] CPHA calls on all provincial and territorial governments: • to broaden the categories of outlets that are prohibited from selling tobacco products • to cap the number of tobacco retail licenses at the current level, with the goal of significantly reducing the number of out- lets in each province and territory within five years • to develop and maintain an accurate database of retailers of tobacco [...] Setting the Agenda to Tobacco Control CPHA proposes the goal of a tobacco-free Canada by the The fundamental mission of public health is to protect and year 2035.* This goal would be achieved through an array promote the health of the public. [...] Appreciating the a key role in the dramatic reduction of tobacco consumption challenges in the near-term to reach this goal, CPHA calls through policy development, and prevention, cessation and on all levels of government, communities, public health enforcement activities, both in this country and around the practitioners and citizens to work aggressively to achieve the world. [...] This can be provisions of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control done in three ways: (FCTC) and related guidelines to the highest degree possible, 1. Reducing the visibility of tobacco advertising and promo- including fulfilling its obligations to global tobacco control, and tion in movies and on the Internet to support healthy to implement and fund fully on an annual and consistent basis dec