The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that they are starting a $54 million telelvision, radio, and print campaign aimed at showing smokers the darker side of addiction. In the ads, smokers who have been hard-hit by the side effects of smoking, such as those with cancer and tracheotomies are featured. The [...]

A landmark tobacco case with up to $27 billion at stake has begun in a Montreal courtroom. Canada’s three largest tobacco companies are squaring off against a group of Quebec smokers. The smokers are claiming in a class-action lawsuit they were duped for years by big tobacco companies — as they became addicted to cigarettes [...]

The Canadian Public Health Agency (CPHA) has recently released a position paper on tobacco use in Canada and what governments and policy makers can do to help protect the health of Canadians.  The full report can be found online at http://www.cpha.ca/uploads/positions/position-paper-tobacco_e.pdf . An excerpt from the executive summary: For more than five decades, the Canadian [...]

On January 27 the Globe and Mail reported that a study done by Elyse Park of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University’s medical school in Boston found at the time of diagnosis 39% of lung cancer patients and 14% of colorectal cancer were smokers.  Five months later 14% of lung cancer and 9 percent of [...]

…despite a cancer diagnosis, 14 percent of the lung cancer patients and 9 percent of the colorectal patients were still lighting up…