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Canada Anti Smoking

Ottawa Urged To Follow Australia's Lead

CBC | Posted 10.15.2012 | Canada Living

Anti-smoking activists are urging Ottawa to follow Australia's lead after its highest court upheld the world's toughest tobacco law on Wednesday. ...

Graphic Anti-Smoking Images Now Mandatory On Canadian Packages

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.19.2012 | Canada Living

OTTAWA - Smoking rates have dropped dramatically in the last 10 years, with steep declines in the number of teenage smokers, Statistics Canada reporte...

Smoking About To Get Even Uglier

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.21.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - New graphic labels for cigarette and little cigar packages will start making their way onto store shelves.Wednesday marked the first day that...

Quebecois Smokers Don't Have Much Else to Live For

Yoni Goldstein | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada
Yoni Goldstein

At first, I was rather annoyed at the two million Quebecers who are seeking reparations from Big Tobacco in a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $27 billion. These people, I told myself, are reaching for a scapegoat to mask their own poor decisions, and worse, expect to cash in on those mistakes.