PSC provides leadership for the medical profession
on tobacco issues. In the past 20 years, more than 1,500 Canadian physicians
have joined PSC.
PSC is funded primarily by
contributions from Health Canada and other health ministries, by donations
from private foundations, by earnings on its consulting services, and by
donations from its members. Prior to 1999, PSC received some unrestricted
grants from pharmaceutical companies (to promote, for example, smoke-free
homes and to encourage quitting).
We work in collaboration with governments, with
the Canadian Medical Association and other non-governmental health agencies. PSC is a
member of the Canadian Council on Smoking and Health, of the Steering Committee of Health
Canada's National Strategy to Reduce Tobacco Use and an active player in the National
Campaign for Action on Tobacco.
In 1994 PSC was awarded the Canadian
Cardiovascular Society's Dr. Harold N. Segall Award of Merit for our contribution to the
prevention of cardiovascular disease in Canada. In 2004, the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Canada awarded PSC the "Leadership Award in Heart
Healthy Policy". In 2005, the World Health Organization awarded PSC
with the World No Tobacco Day Award.
