The Saskatchewan Government is continuing its' push to get smokers to butt out.

 

A two-day symposium in Saskatoon is talking about how to get people to quit smoking.

 

Doctor Chad Nilson, a social researcher who did a study for the Provincial Government, says around 20% of people aged 15 and up smoke in Saskatchewan.

 

He says that's one of the highest rates in the country, and it's even higher, more than 50%, for First Nations people.

 

Saskatchewan Health MInister, Don McMorris, says the next phase of the province's tobacco reduction strategy is to get pharmacies to stop selling cigarettes, and that will likely happen by April, 2011.