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Tobacco farm in Norfolk County, summer 2012. The longstanding dominance of tobacco in the region has been on the wane in recent years. In 2002, politicians from the Ontario tobacco belt opposed several anti-smoking measures, causing a non-smoking group to give the Ontario government a failing grade at that time. [6]
A warning message inside a package of cigarettes—mandatory in Canada. The Yukon banned smoking in public spaces and workplaces on 15 May 2008 after passing an anti-smoking bill in 2007. It was the last of the provinces and territories to implement a ban. [55]
The anti-smoking messaging appears to be working; only 10.2 per cent of people over the age of 15 smoke cigarettes in Canada. The government hopes to further reduce that number to less than five ...
In November 2015, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report noted that "the percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes had already declined from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 16.8 percent in 2014. Cigarette smoking was significantly lower in 2014 (16.8 percent) than in 2013 (17.8 percent)."
Canada is the first country to require health warnings on individual cigarettes. The goal is to reduce smoking to less than 5% of the population.
Canadian people by province or territory and populated place (14 C) Canadian people by occupation and province or territory (16 C) People from Canada by provincial or territorial municipal area (10 C)
List of Canadian provinces by unemployment rate; List of Canadian socialist parties; List of cities in Canada; List of countries by federal system; List of hospitals in Canada; Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Canada; Outline of Canada; Politics of country subdivisions; Provinces and territories of Canada; Western alienation; Talk ...
ERC. (2007). World Cigarettes 1: The 2007 Report. ERC Statistics Intl PIc. Population data is from Central Intelligence Agency. (2007). The World Factbook 2007. Washington: Government Printing Office. Map created in Inkscape using public domain sources. Author: Jolly Janner: Other versions