TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews is planning to introduce legislation that would ban the sale of candy-flavored tobacco products to people under 18 years of age, the Toronto Star reports.

The bill targets products that have been marketed to youth, including flavored cigarillos and chewing tobacco, in an effort to prevent young people from developing an addiction to tobacco.

Ontario passed a bill in 2010 that prohibited stores from selling candy- and fruit-flavored cigarillos to youth, but the law specified the banned products include a filter. Bill sponsor France Gélinas said tobacco manufacturers simply removed the filters to skirt the law.