Tobacco Industry

Eye on the Industry: Spring 2016

This is NSRA/SHAF’s last full length tobacco industry backgrounder document; later this spring the first in a series of tobacco industry bulletins will be published. This document, aimed at policy makers and public health intermediaries, provides an overview of the tobacco industry in Canada and its multi-national parent companies, issues facing the industry in...

Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (Spring 2015)

Access the backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (2015 Edition). Download the Document

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. Download the Document

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. Download the Document

Backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (Spring 2014)

Access the backgrounder on the Canadian Tobacco Market (2014 Edition). Download the Document

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. Download the Document

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...