RESOURCES by topic

After 2018

Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping

• Timeline of selected regulatory actions on electronic nicotine devices.
• Snapshot of provincial and federal regulations on vaping products. 
• International restrictions on e-cigarette flavours
• 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. 
• Canadian beliefs about the harms of tobacco, alcohol, vaping and cannabis. (2022)

Environmental Issues

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

Monitoring Usage

• E-cigarette and tobacco use. Insights from the Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey
  • Wave 1: 2019
  • Wave 2: 2020
• Smoking and Vaping Behaviour of Canadians, Results from the Canadian Community Health Survey – Rapid Response 2020.
• Impact of telephone or in-person survey of smoking behaviour in Canada.
• Nicotine Users in Canada 2013-2023
• 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
• Provincial cigarette/fine-cut sales per smoker
• Deaths from tobacco in Canada
• Use of tobacco industry products in Canada and Sweden.
• Tobacco-related diseases and deaths. Canada and Sweden

Housing

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

Policy and Regulation

• Timeline of selected regulatory actions on e-cigarettes and vaping products. 
• Snapshot of provincial and federal regulations on vaping products. 
• Reporting requirements for tobacco and vaping suppliers
• Tobacco 21 laws and their impact on youth smoking and vaping
• Tobacco use reduction targets in Canada
• How Canadian governments have responded to recommendations of their Medical Officers of Health on vaping (2022)
• Perspectives on managing tobacco waste. Report on a discussion (Summer 2022)
• Canadian perspectives on reduced nicotine – report on a discussion (December 2021)
• Transforming the tobacco market: why the supply of cigarettes should be transferred from for-profit corporations to non-profit enterprises with a public health mandate (2005)
• Supply-side options for an endgame for the tobacco industry (Tobacco Control, 2012)
• Curing the Addiction to Profits: A Supply-Side Approach to Phasing Out Tobacco (CCPA, 2005)
• Exploring vector space: overcoming resistance to direct control of the tobacco industry (Tobacco Control, 2011)
• List of health organizations in support of a ban on e-liquid flavours. (2024)
• List of therapeutic products authorized by Health Canada for use to assist in smoking cessation (March 2024) 
• Proposed revisions to the federal Tobacco and Vaping Products Act 

Pricing

• ‌Cigarette pricing in OECD countries. August 2019. 
• Cigarette prices in downtown Montreal 2017-2021
• Cigarette prices in downtown Montreal, 2017-2019
• Cigarette pricing 1 year after new restrictions on tobacco industry retailer programmes in Quebec, Canada (Tobacco Control)
• Canada’s Cheap Cigarettes: Why they are a problem, and what can be done about them (2017)

Retailing

• Tobacco retail density in British Columbia. October 2019. 
• Tobacco retailing – A scan of available regulatory approaches. March 2020.
• The responsibilities and powers of Ontario municipalities to address tobacco use. March 2020.

Taxation and other financial issues

• ‌Tobacco and Vaping Tax Measures (2020)
• Canada Pension Plan investments in tobacco companies (2022)
• Canadian public pension investments in tobacco companies. (2022)
• Regulatory Fees on Tobacco Manufacturers (2021)
• Taxes on cigarettes in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on e-cigarettes in Canada
• Taxes on heat-not-burn cigarettes in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on fine-cut tobacco in Canadian jurisdictions
• Taxes on oral tobacco in Canadian jurisdictions
• Average tobacco taxes paid by smokers in Canadian provinces
• Tobacco tax revenues of Canadian governments 1990 to 2024 
• Tobacco tax revenues as a percentage of government revenues

Prior to 2018

Advertising

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

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).
• Follow the money: How the billions of dollars that flow from smokers in poor nations to companies in rich nations greatly exceed funding for global tobacco control and what might be done about it (Tobacco Control, 2010)

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)

Monitoring Health Behaviours

• 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

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)
• This should change everything: using the toxic profile of heat-not-burn products as a performance standard to phase out combustible cigarettes (Tobacco Control, 2018)

Other Tobacco Products

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