• Health Canada trims its tobacco control sails

    In April 2021, two more documents were released by Health Canada which set out how the department plans to address the health consequences of tobacco use and vaping. The first is Health Canada's Forward Regulatory Plan for 2022-2024, and the second is the internal evaluation of Health Canada's activities, including management's response to the recommendations made by the evaluators. These, together with the
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · May 31, 2022 11:18am
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Groups call for Scots ban on plastic cigarette filters over 'horrific' environmental impact https://t.co/QdCHm73HrP
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · May 31, 2022 8:58am
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Canada, with very differnt laws, had a similar outcome: e-cigarettes became a drug delivery system favoured by MANY new nicotine users, but few smokers. It was hoped that e-cigs would replace cigarettes for smokers. Instead, they seem to provide replacement addicts to industry. https://t.co/DC41n3Osu5 https://t.co/w6TyCgPLS1
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Maurice@MauriceGSwanson
Number of young people vaping doubles in a year as smoking rates drop. We need to do more to get the genie back into the bottle https://t.co/E8GXIxdMGL @MelissaSweetDr @MelissaLDavey @NeilChenoweth @janehansen2000 @normanswan @benoshea @jeanavivem @tobaccofreeaust @SimonChapman6
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · May 24, 2022 8:02am
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Of the largest 10 Canadian pension funds, only 3 still invest in Tobacco. Mandatory pensions for Quebec workers are divested from tobacco stocks, but not for those of us in the Rest of Canada ( @CPPInvestments)
More at: https://t.co/AnGTEWXIMe https://t.co/wCZRbkRnUU
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · May 5, 2022 12:22pm
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The Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey results were released this morning, showing no improvement over the previous 12 months. https://t.co/VHX8AWoyGf https://t.co/FnbOyTJHyD
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · May 2, 2022 5:05pm
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The good news and the bad in a compelling infographic from #cancerstats: Lung cancer way down -- but still causing way too many needless deaths. https://t.co/1RVpND8iGw https://t.co/LrLGrB2iSG
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Canadian Cancer Society@cancersociety
In 2021, how will cancer impact Canadians across the country? The new Canadian #CancerStats 2021 report, released with @StatCan_eng and @GovCanHealth, reveals important trends.

See some of the take-aways in this infographic and learn more on our site: https://t.co/DeTquuyWtF https://t.co/zIToc1qO6A
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada · April 28, 2022 11:40am
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The final evaluation report of @GovCanHealth 's tobacco and vaping policy was released this week. Some of the sharper comments in the draft version have been 'gentled', but the primary message is the same: there is no actual plan to reach 5% by 2035.

https://t.co/AwBkaGu1Kp https://t.co/i8wQPKYf93
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