Got a Match, Leona?

Federal Health minister Leona Aglukkaq has announced the government will impose striking new graphics on cigarette packages...though it may take some time. (Can we break for a smoke?) 

There had been rumors that tobacco companies were attempting to influence the health ministry's decision, suggesting slightly different graphics; e.g., Paul Henried lighting two cigarettes and handing one to Bette Davis in "Now Voyager."  Marvin Puffmeister, a tobacco industry lobbyist, denied this, saying he always travels with a trunk full of hundred-dollar bills. 

In light of the government's action, the CRTC has directed radio stations to downplay recordings by Smokey Robinson, DVD shops cannot display copies of "Smokey and the Bandit", and that familiar forest firefighter, Smokey the Bear, has been replaced by Buttout the Beaver. 

Meanwhile, rogue radio stations, broadcasting from underground smoke-filled rooms, continue to play Phil Harris's iconic recording of the Merle Travis-Tex Williams song "Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette":

"Nicotine slaves are all the same

  At a pettin' party or a poker game

  Everything's gotta stop while they have a cigarette."

Uh...Leona?  Madam Minister?  Got a light?