tobacco in canada physicians for a smoke free fall 2003 i contents who smokes 1 cigarettes are the leading cause of preventable death 3 will soon kill as many women men 5 non smokers 7 current legislation 9 multi national companies 11 light aren t safer 13 retailers advertise and sell to kids 15 cigarette advertising is growing 17 taxes 21 governments & tax revenues 23 resources 25 part canadians over age total 4 million smoking increasingly associated with poverty disadvantage aboriginal at among highest rates world also more common work primary resource industries those have been unemployed long periods vary considerably by region social grouping 2002 lowest were recorded bc 16 quebec 26 sources canadian use monitoring survey wave health
