CANADA
Health Canada is looking for outside experts to review its tobacco control strategy.
A posting on Merx, a website used by the government to list outstanding government tenders, Health Canada is asking contractors to prepare a report on the “value for money” of the longstanding, multi-million-dollar program that has sought to reduce the number of smokers in the country.
The review would look back at how well the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy (FTCS) performed between 2001 and 2017.
The tender said, “The objective of the requirement is to calculate the return on investment [ROI] of the FTCS ... investigating the fiscal benefits that accrue from reductions in smoking prevalence against the cost of implementing such policies.”
“This retrospective analysis will be used to update the fiscal success of new initiatives and support ongoing policy decisions regarding the implementation of the best ‘value for money’ programs in the future.”