Resources

Business Intelligence

‌Fact Sheets

• International marketing of vaping products by multinational tobacco companies, January 2020.
  • Vype by British American Tobacco
  • Blu by Imperial Brands
  • JUUL by JUUL Labs / Altria / PMI
  • Logic  by Japan Tobacco
• Cigarette sales volumes in G7 and selected other countries (2018-2019)

Reports

• Environmental scan – September 2019
• Environmental scan – March 2020
• Environmental scan – September 2020

Electronic cigarettes and Vaping

• Timeline of selected regulatory actions on electronic nicotine devices.
• Snapshot of provincial and federal regulations on vaping products. 
• Pass the salt. Why nicotine salts make vaping products more addictive. February 2020.
• Taxes on e-cigarettes in various jurisdictions
• Popelyne glycole and vegetable glycerin. Old and new evidence that these chemicals are not safe to inhale. October 2019. 
• The health effects of vaping. November 2019. 

Environmental Issues

‌Fact sheets

• Plastic waste from tobacco and vaping products. October 2020.
• A provincial desposit-return program for cigarettes. 2014

Health Behaviours

Fact Sheets

• Tobacco and vaping surveillance systems in Canada – 2019 and 2020

Reports

• Tobacco Use. Insights from the Canadian Community Health Survey.
  • Excel tables
    • Smoking behaviour in provinces (6 variables), by sex, 2000 to 2019
    • Smoking behavour in provinces (4 variables), by age and sex, 2000 to 2017-2018
    • Smoking behaviour and income, main source of income, food insecurity
    • Smoking behaviour and income quintile by sex, age and province (2017-2018).
    • Smoking behaviour and income quintile, historic tables (2005 – 2017-2018)
    • Demographic changes in smoking behaviour 2007-2008 to 2017-2018
• Tobacco Use 2000-2014. Insights from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Report dated July 2016. 
  • Excel tables 2000  to  2013-14
    • B1-Basic-Ageandsex, B1-Basic-AgeandSex-Waterfall , B2- Changing Demographic-AgePyramid, B2-ChangingDemographics-Generationalcohort B, B3-Gender
    • C-Province-RecentQuits , C1-Starting-FirstCigarette,  C1-Starting-daily, C2-Quitting, C3-Occasional, C4-HealthStatus
    • D1-education, D1-school,  D2-incomequintile, D2-foodinsecurity,  D3-occupationalgroups,  D3-workstatus, D4-Immigration, D5-VisibleMinority-income-origin, D5-Visibleminority, D5-VisibleMinority-Province
    • E1-maritalstatus, E1-Livingarrangements,  E1-languageathome, E1-Homeownership
    • F1-secondhandsmoke
    • G-Province, G1-Peergroup
    • H1-cannabis-abuse, H1-cannabis-use,  H2-mentaldisorder, H2-depresionandanxiety

Health Effects

‌Fact Sheets

• Pass the salt. Why nicotine salts make vaping products more addictive. February 2020.
• Popelyne glycole and vegetable glycerin. Old and new evidence that these chemicals are not safe to inhale. October 2019. 
• The health effects of vaping. November 2019. 
• Tobacco and causes of death in Canada – update from Global Change Data Lab. September 2019.

Housing

• Brief to B.C. Rental Housing Task Force Chair. 2018.

Policy and Regulation

‌Fact Sheets

• Timeline of selected regulatory actions on e-cigarettes and vaping products. 
• Snapshot of provincial and federal regulations on vaping products. 

Pricing

‌Fact Sheets

• Cigarette pricing in OECD countries. August 2019. 

‌Report

• Cigarette prices in downtown Montreal, 2017-2019

Retailing

‌Fact Sheets

• Tobacco retail density in British Columbia. October 2019. 

‌Reports

• Tobacco retailing – A scan of available regulatory approaches. March 2020.
• The responsibilities and powers of Ontario municipalities to address tobacco use. March 2020.

Taxes

‌Fact Sheets

• Taxes on cigarettes in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on heat-not-burn cigarettes in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on fine-cut tobacco in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on oral tobacco in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on e-cigarettes in various jurisdictions
• Average tobacco taxes paid by smokers in Canadian provinces
• Tobacco tax revenues of Canadian governments 1990 to 2019 

Research Archive

• Advertising Expenditures in Canada 1987-2000. (2000)
• Presence of tobacco advertising in Canadian retail stores (1996-2003)

Agriculture

• Tobacco is still being grown in Ontario. How the $300 million federal buyout failed to curb tobacco growing. (2009)
• Recent trends in tobacco agriculture in Canada.  A review of tobacco imports, exports and crop sizes in recent years. (2008)

Contraband

• Estimating the volume of contraband sales of tobacco in Canada – Updated April 2010. Updated estimates of cigarette contraband for 2008 are now available.  Contraband rose from 27% of the total cigarette market in 2007 to 31% in 2008.  [2010]

Harm reduction?

• PSC responds to claims by Imperial Tobacco Canada that snus use is linked to lower smoking rates and fewer tobacco caused deaths by releasing comparative statistics on snus- and non-snus using countries. The Snus Experience. Lessons from Norway, Sweden and Canada on the public health consequences of widespread oral tobacco use. (2008)

History

• History of tobacco control in Canada (2009)

International Trade/Plain packaging

• Tobacco Industry document review: The plot against plain packing. How tobacco companies used phoney arguments to defeat plain packaging, and how health ministers fell for their chicanery.  (2008)

International

• The Global Tobacco Economy:  A snapshot of the economies of multinational tobacco companies and of international tobacco control efforts in 2008 (2009).

International Trade/Packaging

• Legal analysis of Philip Morris’ claim against Uruguay’s tobacco packaging laws.  (2010)

Litigation

• Lessons for Canada from the U.S. Master Settlement Agreement (2007).
• Update on litigation in Canada (2020)

Product modification.

• Can governments regulate how cigarettes can be made in order to make them safer?  The Canadian experience is full of cautionary tales.  “Trolling for Big Fish: 10 Lessons from Canada on tobacco product regulation.”  (2007)

Other Tobacco Products

• Cigarillo use in Canada 2007.  A review of CTUMS survey data. (2008)