In reference to recent posts wondering what would happen if doctors refused to accept patients whose parents are feeding formula:

All over the Cdn media today -  a Manitoba doctor has refused to see his patients that have refused to quit smoking.  His growing frustration with treating patients with emphysema and other chronic smoking-aggravated conditions, who continued to smoke led him to issue the ultimatum - quit smoking or find another doctor.  So far only 5 of his 5000 patients have left his practice.  

Also in other news:
http://globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/search/tgam/SearchFullStory.html&cf=tgam/search/tgam/SearchFullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&encoded_keywords=smoking&option=&start_row=3&current_row=3&start_row_offset1=&num_rows=1&search_results_start=1
Canadian doctors and a host of health groups took aim at the tobacco industry yesterday, demanding that industry-sponsored smoking-prevention programs for young people be terminated because they are ineffective.

Mr. Perley said school-based programs such as Wise Decisions are fundamentally flawed because they present the idea that children have a choice to make between smoking and not smoking.

"Wise Decisions", [a prevention program aimed at young Canadian] rests on a false premise: that young people need to decide whether to smoke, when it's clear there is only one medical message -- don't start."

"There should not be a choice," Mr. Perley said. "To pretend there is one and to present it to kids and educators as needing attention is fundamentally unsound and inappropriate. It is even worse when you see that there is no information in the Wise Decisions document about the harmful effects of tobacco use, health-wise."

[Sound familiar?]

Janice Reynolds
Consumer Representative for the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada

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