Minister of Health Promotion and Sport to visit CAMH to Announce More Help for Ontario Smokers

For Immediate Release – January 18, 2011 – (Toronto) – Minister of Health Promotion and Sport, the Honourable Margarett Best, will visit CAMH’s TEACH Learning Centre on January 19, Weedless Wednesday, to announce an expansion of services for smokers in Ontario who want to quit.

Speakers:

The Honourable Margarett Best, Minister of Health Promotion and Sport
Dr. Catherine Zahn, President and CEO of CAMH
Dr. Peter Selby, Clinical Director, Addictions Program and Head of the Nicotine Dependence Clinic, CAMH
Dr. Anne DuVall, President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians (TBC)

Date:               Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time:               10:00 a.m.
Location:          TEACH Learning Centre
                        Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
                        175 College Street, 3^rd Floor
                        Toronto

For more information contact: Michael Torres, CAMH Media Relations, 416-595-6015; or by email at media@camh.net

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in its field. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. For more information, please visit www.camh.net.