Tobacco

BAD FACT: SMOKING KILLS.

The most common addiction in Canada is smoking. Each year, more than 40,000 Canadians die from of smoking related diseases.

GOOD FACT: QUITTING SMOKING IS POSSIBLE! YOU CAN GO go smokefree … for good!

The Public Healthy Agency of Canada wants you to know about resources available on smoking and tobacco use.

Quitting lowers your risk of cancer and heart disease and reduces stress on your heart.

• Order your guide to becoming a non-smoker
• Quit Smoking Programmes
• Make your home and car smoke-free: A guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke
• Tobacco FAQs and Facts

Tobacco and Youth

• Youth Zone
• Quit 4 Life – Made for Youths
• Graphic Health Warning
• An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls

Smoking & your body

• Smoking Diseases

Resources for Health Professionals and Educators

Tobacco – Reports and Publications

• About Tobacco Control
• Legislation
• Mass Media
• Quit Smoking
• Research
• Second-hand Smoke
• Smoking Diseases
• Workplace
• Youth and Young Adults
• Sleeping with a killer: a report from Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme
• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative
• Tobacco Use Statistics

Smoking prevention and cessation

• Inventory of Canadian Tobacco Cessation Programs and Resources
• Physicians and clinical tobacco intervention: A guide for evaluation and planning
  Helping doctors help patients stop smoking
• Improving the Odds – Educator Resource
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls
• Getting smoke-free: An Information kit for community organizations working with women
• Download a poster and screen-saver for your office

Online courses

• New Online Course for Health Professionals: Tobacco and Public Health: From Theory to Practice - The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit