Smokers and the cigarettes they smoke

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

Smoking Prevalence 1965 - 2008
(percentage of Canadians who smoke)

Link to Health Canada's useful historic tables

Number of cigarettes sold in Canadian provinces, 1995-2003

Cigarette Consumption Per Capita, 1990 - 2007
Number of Canadian cigarettes and roll-your-own equivalents sold .

Smokers of “light” cigarettes, 2004
Findings from the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey

Tobacco exports and imports between Canada and Mexico, 2006 & 2007

Canadian per-capita consumption of pipe, snuff, chewing tobacco and cigars,1998-2007

Health and economic impact of smoking

Estimated tobacco-caused deaths in Canada
By province and gender

Health effects of second hand smoke

Cigarette smoke and children's health

Direct health care costs from tobacco use, per province

Governments and Tobacco

Tobacco Tax Revenues in Canada, 1990-2008

Second-hand smoke

Health effects of second hand smoke

Second hand smoke on patio settings

"Ventilation" - can cigarette smoke be cleaned from indoor air?

How tobacco companies try to defeat measures to protect workers and the public from second hand smoke

Tobacco companies

Cigarette Industry Revenues in Canada

Earnings (pre-tax profits), 1991-2003

Profits Per Cigarette, 1990 – 2003
Imperial Tobacco earnings (pre-tax profits) per cigarette or cigarette equivalent

Tobacco industry expenditures on advertising, 1987-2000

Tobacco company marketing

How tobacco advertising works. 

Evidence From Tobacco Industry Documents. 

Tobacco growing

Recent trends in tobacco agriculture in Canada

Testing of cigarettes

Compliance with Ignition Propensity Tests (August 2008)

How cigarettes are tested for chemical content

Tobacco smoke components
A brief description of the chemical properties and health consequences of selected chemicals found in cigarette smoke:

Carbonyls
Acetaldehyde, Acetone, Acrolein, Butyraldehyde, Crotonaldehyde, Formaldehyde, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Propionaldehyde

Chemicals from Second-hand Smoke:  What a typical restaurant employee would inhale.  An estimate of how much of over 30 chemicals a typical restaurant employee would inhale in an 8 hour shift