• Support for Health Canada’s proposed Vaping Promotion Regulations
  January 2020. PSC comments on Health Canada’s proposed Vaping Promotion regulations 

• Call for stronger health warning messages and limits on nicotine in vaping products.
  September 2019.  Response to Health Canada’s proposed Vaping Products Labelling and Packaging Regulations.

• Call for stronger regulations to protect young people from vaping promotions
  March 2019. Response to Notice of Intent to Regulate Vaping Product Advertising.

• Protecting Canadians from Cheap Cigarettes
  February 2019.  PSC and the Quebec Coalition call for budgetary measures to address tobacco use. Letter to federal Minister of Finance; Briefing Paper. 

• Call for powerful renewal to the federal tobacco control strategy
  April 2017.  Response to questions identified in Health Canada Document “Seizing the Opportunity: The Future of Tobacco Control in Canada.” Submission on strategy renewal.

• Concerns about commercialization of vaping products.
  April 2017. PSC urges Senate to amend Bill S-5 (the proposed Tobacco and Vaping Products Act) to a) protect young people from ads for vaping products on mass media and 2) to implement a phase-out of conventional cigarettes. S-5-submission

• Complaint to the Competition Bureau 
  February 2020. Complaint regarding misleading advertising by Imperial Tobacco in its #FactsnotFear campaign. Letter.

• Complaint to Health Canada
  May 2019. Complaint regarding infraqctiosn of the TVPA by Imperial Tobacco and other vaping companies. Complaint.

• FCTC Monitoring Report – 2016
  August 2016. Canada’s Implementation of Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Shadow report.

• FCTC Monitoring Report – 2010
  November 2010. Canada’s Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Shadow Report.

• FCTC Monitoring Report – 2007
  June 2007. Report on Canada’s Progress towards Implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Shadow Report

Advertising and Promotion

• Tobacco Vector: How American movies, Canadian film subsidies and provincial rating practices will kill 43,000 Canadian teens alive today — and what Canadian governments can do about it. (2010)

Indigenous Tobacco Use

• Towards effective tobacco control in First Nations and Inuit communities.  How the FCTC and respect for autonomy and self governance can support public health in Canada’s most challenged communities. (2007)

Regulatory Approaches

• A Moratorium on new tobacco products.  How public health can benefit from a change in the style of regulations. (2009)
• Performance based regulations. Tobacco companies use new products as a way to overcome public health laws. A moratorium on new tobacco products can better protect health.  (2009)
•  “Trolling for Big Fish: 10 Lessons from Canada on tobacco product regulation.”   Can governments regulate how cigarettes can be made in order to make them safer?  The Canadian experience is full of cautionary tales. (2007)
• A Menu of Supply Side Approaches to Reduce Tobacco use. Cap and Trade, Moratorium, License conditions — the list of available new policy tools keeps growing …(2008)
• Phasing out combustible cigarettes
  • Notional legislation to achieve phase-out in Canada#2: Tobacco Supply and Demand Reduction Act. (2018)
  • Notional legislation to achieve phase-out in Canada#1: Tobacco Reduction Targets Act (2015)
  • This should change everything: using the toxic profile of heat-not-burn products as a performance standard to phase out combustible cigarettes. (Tobacco Control Article, 2018)

Retail

• Tobacco Free Pharmacies Reasons why all provinces should ban pharmacy sales in provinces, and information on the majority that do. (2010)

Tax and Pricing

• Cheap cigarettes: Tobacco companies have manipulated  retail pricing to blunt the impact of tax increases. A rationale for standardized pricing and other reforms is presented. (2017)

Submissions in reponse to regulatory proposals