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[Canada] Smoking: Will cigarettes ever be safe?

“How do you evaluate if any of this is going to be of useful effect?” asks Proctor. “That’s the story of a lot of our research effort for the last five or six years. It’s one of the most challenging things, figuring out if what you’ve done to the product
Vancouver (BC) Province
added Sep 3, 2012 10:13
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[Canada] New, more graphic labels for tobacco come in; smoking rates keep falling

Canadian Press
added Jun 26, 2012 15:50
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[Canada] Cigarette companies don't want you to see this

Fifteen years ago former Edmontonian Barb Tarbox was one of those women people would turn their heads to look at. The last photograph taken of the beauty and former model will turn heads away from cigarette packages and the government hopes away from smo
iNews880 CHQT-AM (ca)
added Jun 20, 2012 07:34
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[Canada] Tobacco companies want case dismissed

Two of the tobacco companies the provincial government is suing are trying to get the case dismissed because they say P.E.I. courts don’t have jurisdiction to deal with it. Earlier this month British American Tobacco and Carreras Rothmans Ltd. filed the
(Prince Edward Island) Guardian (ca)
added Jan 28, 2013 17:45
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[Canada] Graphic cigarette warnings don’t put out fire

a $140,000 Health Canada-sponsored survey of 1,505 adult smokers indicates that the agency’s past experimentation with warning messages is causing Canadians to stop lighting up around non-smokers, but may have done little in persuading them to put down th
National Post (ca)
added Aug 7, 2012 03:14
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[Canada] Tasha Kheiriddin: Ottawa smoking bylaw chooses shaming over success

If you don’t want to inhale, I say stand upwind and stop hectoring those who do . . . Bylaws aren’t the answer, but harm reduction just may be.
National Post blogs (ca)
added Jul 4, 2012 16:59
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[Canada] Day 47: Big Tobacco really doesn't want the plaintiffs to see their financial records

For some time the plaintiffs have been asking the defendants to turn over their financial statements for the last five years. The tobacco companies have refused, so today it went before the judge.
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Jun 22, 2012 04:04
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[Canada] Smokers most common in construction, mining, oil and gas: Report

according to a Conference Board of Canada report. By occupation, 28 per cent of trades, transport and equipment operators smoked in 2011. Processing, manufacturing and utilities occupations had an employee smoking rate of 24 per cent, while 23 per cent o
Canadian HR Reporter (ca)
added Apr 12, 2013 13:40
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[Canada] ‘We drink. We swear. We don’t f—ing smoke’: Firm’s ban on hiring smokers leaves people asking ‘Who’s next?’

At Momentous Corp., they don’t track vacation or sick days. Staffers can bring their dogs in to the office. The Ottawa Internet firm takes pride in being different, as evidenced by its website, where you will find, in large letters: “We drink. We swear.
National Post (ca)
added Apr 8, 2013 10:55
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[Canada] SCC Case Information - Summary: Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Her Majesty the Queen

The Tax Court judge concluded that the duty on the applicant’s tobacco products became payable pursuant to paragraph 42(1)(a) of the Act when these products were packaged for sale to Indians, and he consequently dismissed the appeals from the Minister’s a
Supreme Court of Canada
added Mar 28, 2013 18:54
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