Tobacco Info - Links No. 5

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Tobacco Info No. 5
April 2011

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Study shows young smokers prefer brand names:

PSC press release:
http://www.smoke-free.ca/eng_home/2011/news_press_19_jan_2011.htm

PSC factsheets:
http://www.smoke-free.ca/pdf_1/Tobacco%20Brand%20Choice%20of%20Young%20Canadians.pdf
http://www.smoke-free.ca/pdf_1/profitingfromstartersmokers.pdf

CMAJ 2009 full study:
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/181/6-7/384

CCSA Butt study:
http://www.conveniencestores.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:ccsa-butt-study-released&catid=1

The case for the plain packaging of tobacco products, April 2008, Addiction:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02145.x/abstract

David Hammond study, Plain packaging Regulations for Tobacco Products: the Impact of Standardizing the Color and Design of Cigarette Packs:
http://www.scielosp.org/pdf/spm/v52s2/a18v52s2.pdf

WHO-FCTC: http://www.who.int/fctc/text_download/en/index.html

More tax-paid cigarettes are sold as contraband is contained

From Philip Morris International’s report of earnings released on February 10, 2011

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODExNTV8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1

From Louis Camilleri’s slide show (pages 50 and 51) on contraband cigarettes in Canada

http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/14/146476/MorganStanleySLIDESFINAL1.pdf

From CBC’s website about lobbying, notably by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, that preceded the (temporary) retreat of government on new health warnings

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2010/12/08/tobacco-conservatives-lobbying008.html

A December 2010 document from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (see page 28)

http://www.chamber.ca/images/uploads/Reports/2010/Strengthening_Our_Ties_Dec2010.pdf

November 2010 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review, page 108

www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/fallstatement/2010/paper_all.pdf

December 2010 Update on Quebec’s financial and economic situation, page 108

www.finances.gouv.qc.ca/documents/Autres/en/AUTEN_update2010.pdf

November-December 2010 issue of Your Convenience Manager, page 20

www.conveniencecentral.ca/uploads/magazines/ycm/issue/November%202010.pdf

Association des détaillants en alimentation du Québec’s homepage (in French)

http://adaq.qc.ca/pls/htmldb/f?p=105:34:2585794001626885

RCMP cigarette seizures from 1994 to 2009 (the 2010 data was provided by Mrs. Stéphanie Laplante)

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ce-da/tobac-tabac/stats-eng.htm

Both Active and Passive smoking cause breast cancer

Full study

www.otru.org/pdf/special/expert_panel_tobacco_breast_cancer.pdf

Abstract of the study from Tobacco Control

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/1/e2.abstract

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada press release asking for breast cancer warnings on cigarette packages www.smoke-free.ca/eng_home/2009-media/news_press_24_apr_2009.htm

Smokeless tobacco

CTV News article

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20100914/snuff-tobacco-100914/

Youth Smoking Survey 2008/2009

http://www.yss.uwaterloo.ca/index.cfm?section=5&page=288

PSC report on candy coated carcinogens:

http://www.smoke-free.ca/pdf_1/2009/smokeless.pdf

Glantz study: Quantifying the effects of promoting smokeless tobacco as a harm reduction strategy in the USA

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/19/4/297.short

Weaver and Eissenberg study: Evaluating the acute effects of oral, non-combustible potential reduced exposure products marketed to smokers

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/19/5/367.abstract?sid=51a7810e-6e08-4fef-b3c3-05618cdef21d

Letter in Addiciton magazine, November 2010: