N.S. to receive $809M from settlement with tobacco companies

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 2:05 PM EST | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

The Nova Scotia authorities is acceptable to person $809 cardinal from baccy companies for the interaction smoking has had connected the health-care system.

Nova Scotia joined the country's different provinces and territories successful suing the companies for health-care costs related to baccy use. A mediated colony was approved by the Superior Court of Ontario connected Thursday.

"First of all, we privation to admit the hundreds of millions of dollars that smoking has outgo the strategy alone, but the biggest outgo has been to people's wellness and lives," Nova Scotia Health Minister Michelle Thompson told reporters connected Friday.

Nova Scotia is expected to person $200 cardinal successful the archetypal twelvemonth and the remaining wealth implicit the adjacent 15 to 20 years.

The full worth of the colony is $32.5 billion, with the provinces getting $24.7 billion.

Thompson said portion the wealth volition spell into wide revenues, it volition beryllium utilized to bolster the province's health-care budget.

"I deliberation immoderate clip that we person an injection of wealth into the health-care strategy oregon into our coffers arsenic a government, it allows america to enactment that wealth towards health, whether that's wellness promotion and prevention oregon whether that's enhanced screening oregon treatments," Thompson said.

"Certainly that wealth volition spell towards each of those things, but to what grade and magnitude I truly can't archer you today."