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Who Is Still Smoking In Canada?

CBC | Posted 05.11.2012

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Smoking rates continue to drop and have led to a decline in cancer death rates, but a sizable number of Canadians continue to light up. ...

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Quebecois Smokers Don't Have Much Else to Live For

Yoni Goldstein | Posted 05.15.2012

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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.

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Kick The Butt: Is Smoking Affecting Your Relationship?

The Huffington Post Canada | Arti Patel | Posted 02.10.2012

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Think smoking's popularity is in the past? For smokers, lighting up is still seen as stress relief, a part of a social life and less helpfully, an add...

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What Dangers Are Lurking In One In Five Cars

CP | Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press | Posted 04.06.2012

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CHICAGO - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat action aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand...

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Up in Smoke: Day 2--Success! (Sort of)

Daniel Alexandre Portoraro | Posted 03.20.2012

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Daniel Alexandre Portoraro

There's a gnawing in my stomach, as if a string of spikes is gently lodged against my gut. It's this that prevents me from eating; the stomach pains. In fact, a Big Mac Meal is the first thing eaten since waking up yesterday morning. I'm at six cigarettes. Usually by this point, I'd have smoked about 15.

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May We Offer You a Crack Pipe Instead?

Miranda Frum | Posted 03.05.2012

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Miranda Frum

While Health Canada refuses to authorize the selling of healthy e-cigarettes, Vancouver's Coastal Health Authority has begun to give out free crack pipes. No longer will crackheads have to stand outside and brave the elements!

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Smoking And Stroke: Smokers Have Strokes At Younger Age, Study Suggests

CP | Anne-Marie Tobin, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.02.2011

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TORONTO - A new comparison of patients at an Ottawa stroke prevention clinic suggests that those who smoke have strokes or mini-strokes at a younger a...

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Thank You For Not Scaring Me

Daniel Alexandre Portoraro | Posted 11.28.2011

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Daniel Alexandre Portoraro

Credit is due to the Ottawa government for having picked Ms. Tarbox as their new poster child. But for every Barb Tarbox, there is a James Dean. For every death statistic, there is a hero, real or fictitious who has beaten the odds and has come out on top.

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Smoking Makes You Bad In Bed

The Huffington Post Canada | Martha Edwards | Posted 11.21.2011

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The Marlboro Man is meant to be the epitome of masculinity -- handsome, aloof and strong enough to make any woman feel dainty. And yet there's one dep...

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Canada Butting Out

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.07.2011

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TORONTO - Smokers now comprise less than a fifth of Canada's population as rates of tobacco consumption hit an all-time low last year, Statistics Cana...

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Obesity Is Not the New Smoking, and Fat Is Not Our New Tobacco

Yoni Freedhoff M.D. | Posted 08.27.2011

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Yoni Freedhoff M.D.

People don't choose to become obese, and while choice and free will are involved in lifestyle design, they're certainly not lifestyle's only determinants. If it was as simple as pushing away from the table, everyone who wanted to be would be slim.

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