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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: Canada |
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| | In Canada, the 1980 annual average of 3800 cigarettes smoked per capita in adults |
| | fell to 2600 in 1990, down by about a third. During that time, teenage smoking fell by |
| | two-thirds. |
| | American Medical News, September 2, 1991, p. 8 |
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| | Tobacco sales were $8.2 billion in 1989 in Canada. Tobacco accounted for 20% of all |
| | deaths, including 16,000 from cardiovascular disease, 15,000 from cancer, and 7000 |
| | from chronic respiratory disease. |
| | Canadian Medical Association Journal, January 15, 1992, p. 17 |
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| | There are at least 45,000 tobacco-related deaths in Canada each year among the |
| | country's 5.4 million smokers, and smoking-related health care costs total nearly $3 |
| | billion annually. |
| | Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 1, 1994, p. 338 and Smoke and |
| | Mirrors, p. ix |
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| | 36% of French Canadian adults smoke, compared with 26% of English Canadian |
| | adults. Quebec has the highest smoking rate, 32% of the teenage and adult |
| | population, of any of the Canadian provinces. "For decades, Quebec has held out as |
| | a guilt-free, laissez-faire smokers' paradise in North America's increasingly |
| | prohibitionist sea." |
| | New York Times, January 25, 2000, p. D8 |
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