Tobacco products are products made entirely, or partly, of leaf tobacco as raw material which are intended to be smoked, sucked, chewed or snuffed. All contain the highly addictive psychoactive ingredient, nicotine.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 substances, of which more than 40 are known to cause cancer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified cigarette smoke as a Class A carcinogen (any substance, radionuclide or radiation, that is an agent directly involved in causing cancer).
In Canada, 21% of Canadians over the age of 15 are cigarette smokers – a total of 5.4 million people.
Health Canada state;
• Every 35 minutes, a Canadian woman dies as a result of smoking
• Lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer
• Death by stroke is five times higher in women who smoke
Despite this knowledge, Health Canada abruptly announced at a closed-door meeting with provincial and territorial representatives, in late September, that it was suspending plans to move forward with larger and more graphic warning labels as well as a prominently displayed toll-free number for a quit-smoking line on tobacco packets.
Instead, the federal government’s tobacco policy will now focus on fighting contraband cigarettes.
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