Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (Spring 2015)
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New Tobacco Industry Products: The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes
Fact Sheet on New Tobacco Industry Products: The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes, March 2015.
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Why Canadian governments and public institutions such as universities should divest their tobacco stock
While governments seek to improve the health of their citizens by imple-menting interventions to reduce tobacco consump-tion, the tobacco industry uses its economic might and lobbying prowess to delay, weaken, or fore-stall the introduction and enforcement of effective tobacco control measures.
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Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (Spring 2014)
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Preventing Tobacco Industry Interference: A Critical Tobacco Control Intervention
The tobacco industry manufacturers and promotes a product that is highly addictive, kills half of its long-term users, and is responsible for other social harms, including increased poverty and environmental degradation. Tobacco companies have a long and well-documented history of lying to governments and the public about the health risks of their products; funding...
Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (2013 Edition)
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Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Industry and Its Market (2012 Edition)
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Eye on the tobacco industry (Oct.-Dec. 2011)
A new JTI-Macdonald marketing campaign for its Macdonald Special brand includes posters in Toronto area restaurants, exposing children to an ad that portrays smoking as patriotic.
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Eye on the tobacco industry (Apr.-Sept. 2011)
On May 31, (World No Tobacco Day 2011), Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. sent an open letter to media outlets attacking various government measures to reduce tobacco use. The letter argued that contraband tobacco is such a big problem that governments should not be doing anything to reduce tobacco use other than work to reduce...
Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Industry and Its Market (2010-11 Edition)
This is the eighth edition of the backgrounder produced by the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association (NSRA) which contains the most current information available on the Canadian tobacco industry and its market in a user-friendly format. It is not meant to be a scientific review of all the available information on the subject, but rather a...