Resources

Business Intelligence

‌Fact Sheets

• International marketing of vaping products by multinational tobacco companies, January 2020.
  • Vype by British American Tobacco (and January 2021 update)
  • 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
• Environmental scan – December 2020
• Environmental scan – March 2021

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. 
• Reporting requirements for tobacco and vaping suppliers
• Tobacco 21 laws and their impact on youth smoking and vaping

‌Reports

• 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)

Pricing

‌Fact Sheets

• Cigarette pricing in OECD countries. August 2019. 

‌Report

• Cigarette prices in downtown Montreal, 2017-2019
• Cigarette pricing 1 year after new restrictions on tobacco industry retailer programmes in Quebec, Canada (Tobacco Control)

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 and other financial issues

Briefing notes

• ‌Tobacco and Vaping Tax Measures (2020)
• Canadian public pension investments in tobacco companies (2020)
• Regulatory Fees on Tobacco Manufacturers (2021)

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 2020 

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).
• 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)

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)