Public Issues in Canada

Tobacco in Canada:  A primer on tobacco use in Canada, and some public measures to reduce it.

A Statistical Portrait of Canadian Smokers, 2005.  Facts and Figures about Canadian smoking patterns, and their relationship to age, weight, education, etc.

Current Regulatory Issues:

• Submission to Health Canada on proposed minimum package size for cigarillos. (July 2008)
   

• Submission to the Quebec government on proposed regulations on permitted tobacco advertising and cigarillos (in French).  (2008)

• The Snus Experience. Lessons from Norway, Sweden and Canada on the public health consequences of widespread oral tobacco use. (2007)
   

• Towards effective tobacco control in First Nations and Inuit communities.  (2007) .  press release
   

• Warning signs about cigarette smuggling and actions governments can take to extinguish this problem (2006)

• "Trolling for Big Fish: 10 Lessons from Canada on tobacco product regulation." (2006)
   

• PSC releases a backgrounder on pharmacy sale of cigarettes in Canada (2006)
   

• A proposal for managing tobacco supply reduction in Ontario 2005 to 2030.  Full proposal, April, 2005.  Slide presentation
   

• Proposals to end the deception of 'light' and 'mild' cigarettes. (2005)
   

• Response to government proposals to require health  warning labels on some tobacco advertisements (2004)
   

• Response to government proposals to improve Canada's cigarette health warning labels. (2004)
   

• Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Canada - suggestions for Canadian legislation. (2003)
   

• Light and Mild (sic).  Isn't it time that the government banned these misleading terms?  PSC reviews the evidence (2005)

Archive

• Letter to MPs regarding S-15, the Tobacco Youth Protection Act (May 2001)

• Brief to the Senate during its review of S-20, The Tobacco Youth Protection Act (the brief focuses on the lies tobacco companies previously provided to parliament.(pdf) (May 2000)

• Surveying the Damage
  A report on the impact of the Canadian government's decision to roll-back tobacco taxes in 1994 (PDF)
   

• Win-Win
  Recommendations to Increase Tobacco Taxes -  2004

  Fact Sheets on Tobacco Taxes Up-dated fact sheets on tobacco tax revenues

For information on Canadian issues in Tobacco, please also see:

List of provincial agencies involved in tobacco control. 

Federal

• Non-Smokers' Rights Association

• Canadian Cancer Society

• Canadian Council for Tobacco Control

• Health Canada's Quitting Site

• Health Canada's Regulation & Legislation Site

• Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco

• Ontario Lung Association

• Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC)

• Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU)

• Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario (CTFO)

Quebec

• Coalition québécoise pour le contrôle du tabac

• Quebec Lung Association

• Québec Week for a Tobacco-Free Future, Jan. 17th to 23rd, 1999

New Brunswick

• New Brunswick Anti-Tobacco Coalition

• New Brunswick Coalition for a Smoke-Free Generation

• New Brunswick Lung Association