Besides the cost of buying cigarettes themselves, you’re probably spending more money on life insurance than a non-smoker. “On average, you’re paying close to a thousand dollars more per year… if you have a half million dollar policy, which a lot of people have,” says Hennessey. But, the moment you stop smoking, your premium will go down.

Life insurance isn’t the only thing that may cost you more: your health insurance costs will go up too. Smokers pay, on average, close to five hundred dollars more each year than non-smokers. “That’s understandable,” says Hennessey. “Nobody wants to pay down the line – the risks of lung cancer, emphysema, diabetes, all the problems that are associated with smoking.” Because smokers are at a higher risk for these and other diseases, health insurance companies charge them more to cover costs that may crop up later in life.

Smokers can lose money when it comes to their cars as well. Car resale values go down by almost two-thousand dollars if the car was owned by a smoker. “It’s [money] you lose simply because of the smoke in the car, the wear and tear that comes from the cigarette burns,” says Hennessey. “I tell a lot of people to lease a car rather than buy. You cannot lease a car if you’re a smoker because those burns will kill you when you go to bring it back in and you can never get the smell out.”

So when it comes to making your New Year’s resolutions, this year, consider quitting smoking. It may be a good move health-wise, but it doesn’t hurt financially either.

Source: CBS News

He said that 30% of those above the age of 30 suffer from up to 40 kinds of illnesses which include heart problems and 57 types of cancer.

“Statistics show that every day about 50 teenagers below the age of 18 start smoking and most of them become hardcore smokers,” said Chua in a speech read by Kuala Dipang state assemblyman Dr Chong Fah during the anti-smoking run here Sunday.

He said that according to a recent World Health Organisation report, more than 100,000 youths started smoking daily.

“In 1998, the Government introduced therapy for smokers in four major hospitals in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh and Seremban.

“Today, 44 hospitals and 111 health centres provide this treatment,” he said.

Chua said that in 1999, about 1,000 smokers were able to kick the habit.

He added that the ministry had compounded 11,211 people for smoking in public places that year.

Of the number, 1,366 were youths.

Chua said the ministry was taking various steps to reduce the use of cigarette advertisements by sports and cultural organisations.

He said another measure taken was to direct manufacturers to reduce cigarettes’ tar content from 20mg to 15mg and nicotine from 1.5mg to 1.3mg.

About 1,000 adults and schoolchildren participated in the 4km run which was organised by the Malaysian Anti-Smoking Organisation.

“This is the first time that it’s been in single digits, but there has been a steady decline since the 1980s,” Statistics Canada analyst Jason Gilmore said Tuesday.

The data were contained in the Canadian Community Health Survey, a major poll aimed at assessing the health of Canadians. The survey is conducted every two years.

It is based on the responses of about 130,000 Canadians aged 12 and over from every province and territory in the country. First Nations people living on reserves and members of the RCMP and the Armed Forces are not included in the survey.

The 2005 survey showed that 82 per cent of teens aged 12-17 reported they had never smoked cigarettes, up from 73 per cent in 2000-01.

The figures on teen smoking have been changing fast. An Ontario survey that is conducted every two years pegged the rate of teenagers in that province who smoked at 28 per cent in 1999, just six years before the latest Canadian Community Health Survey was conducted.

Social marketing consultant Francois Lagarde calls the sea-change in attitudes towards smoking in Canada “a huge success” built on decades of interventions, public policies and the growing science around the health risks of tobacco.

“As someone said, 40 years ago a father would give a smoke to a teenager to say ‘Now you’re a man.’ This is the last thing a father would think today,” says Lagarde, who also teaches social marketing at the University of Montreal.

“But that was happening one or two generations ago. It’s pretty amazing.”

The sharp declines in teen smoking bode well for the future health of today’s teenagers, suggesting as adults they may be at much lower risk than previous generations of developing a myriad of smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Like Bever, many teens cite health consequences as a major reason why they are forsaking smoking, says Edward Adlaf, director of the Ontario Student Drug Use Survey.

Data from the Ontario survey show “quite strongly . . . that we have more and more students who perceive great risk in smoking,” says Adlaf, a research scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, which runs the Ontario survey.

“So there’s been a hardening of negative attitudes and beliefs about smoking.”

Rob Cunningham, a senior policy analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society, credits a basket of public policy measures that have turned smoking from a mainstream habit to almost a fringe activity. Things like high taxes on cigarettes. Large and graphic health warnings on cigarette packs. Restrictions on where people can smoke and curbs on tobacco advertising.

“It is a success story. We’ve seen very substantial declines in smoking by adults and by kids,” Cunningham says.

“But we have to fight every inch of the way. And we have an enormous amount of work that remains to be done.”

The message is clearly getting through to kids like Chapman and Bever.

“Well a) it’s not good for you. It’s horrible on your health. And then b) it’s not something I want to like keep doing and then have to go to the trouble of trying to quit,” Chapman says matter-of-factly.

“And obviously my parents wouldn’t be happy.”

Bever, who has a blinding smile, has her own list of smoking turn-offs.

“It’s mainly the cancer thing. And the bad breath as well. Yellow teeth – no one wants that.”

Chapman concurs: “Girls don’t really like kissing boys who’ve just been smoking. It’s not really a turn on.”

After decades of trying, it would appear that something may have taken the “cool” out of teen smoking.

“Certainly that may well be,” Adlaf admits.

“Not for all. There will still be some experimentation. I think the real key is in ensuring adolescents don’t become regular smokers.”

That’s because the teen years have typically been the time when people are most vulnerable to the marketing allure of smoking – a vulnerability the tobacco industry deliberately exploited in its drive to safeguard profits by hooking replacements for older smokers who quit or die, industry documents that were made public in the late 1990s showed.

“Hook ‘em young, hook ‘em for life,” is the industry’s approach to children, former Big Tobacco executive Dr. Jeffrey Wigand – an industry whistleblower whose case was documented in the movie The Insider – testified in public hearings on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the World Health Organization.

Source: CBC.ca

The new legislation will ban smoking in all public indoor places, including bars and restaurants. Some critics say the province has not hired enough inspectors to ensure compliance with the new law, but Couillard says that’s not true.

“The municipal police can also be used if the municipalities give them the authority,” he said Wednesday. “They are under their jurisdiction. They can certainly work in collaboration with the inspectors.

“And again, on this question of the tobacco law, such a majority of citizens want to exercise the right to be in a smoke-free environment that I see a positive implementation of the law,” Couillard said.

One in four Quebec adults still smoking

The province’s smoking rate has been in steady decline, according to Health Canada figures.

However, Quebec still has one of the highest smoking rates in Canada, with 23 per cent of all adults lighting up at least occasionally. The rate is 26 per cent for those aged 15 to 19, and soars to 38 per cent among Quebecers aged 20 to 24.

Louis Gauvin of the Quebec coalition for tobacco control says that last group was in its young teens when the Quebec government slashed cigarette taxes about a decade ago.

Source: CBC

There is more information on how to Quit or Stop Smoking in Canada, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta and Quebec here.

The survey, which has been conducted annually since 1997, asked year 10 students about their smoking habits.

Results in 2005 showed 16.8 per cent of year 10 students said they smoked, down from 17.6 per cent in 2004, and 28.6 per cent in 1999.

Teenagers who had never even had one puff increased from 47 per cent in 2004 to 49.4 per cent in 2005.

However, girls are more likely to be smokers than boys, with 20.4 per cent of girls (21.2 per cent in 2004) and 12.9 per cent of boys (13.8 per cent in 2004) smoking on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

For the first time, smoking rates in girls at lower decile schools dropped.

ASH director Becky Freeman said the results were “fantastic”.

“Every year we notice a downward trend in the numbers of teenagers taking up smoking.

“It is fantastic to see that the gap between the smoking rates in different socio-economic groups is getting smaller.

“We are reaching children and teenagers in communities that have a higher percentage of smoking than others.

“The tobacco companies have long portrayed smoking as a cool and grown-up behaviour, and we are pleased that teenagers are joining the fight against this unethical industry by not smoking.”

The survey also showed teenagers whose parents did not smoke were less likely to smoke themselves, compared to those whose parents smoked.

“The daily smoking of students coming from homes where both parents were smokers was 25.1 per cent. This amount is nearly halved to 11.2 per cent where only one parent smoked, and only 4.3 per cent of students who smoked came from homes where neither parent smoked,” Ms Freeman said.

“Parents express concern that there is little they can do to stop their children from taking up smoking. The survey clearly shows that parents do play a major part in teenagers not taking up smoking.

“If you are a parent who is worried about your child taking up smoking, and you smoke, the best thing you could do for your child’s health and wellbeing is to quit.”

Waitemata District Health Board (DHB) region has the lowest daily, weekly or monthly smoking rate in the country at 11 per cent, and Southland DHB region has the highest daily, weekly or monthly smoking rate in the country at 24.4 per cent.

Source: Stuff.co.nz

The school response rate was 90.0%, the student response rate was 88.7%, and the overall response rate was 79.8%. A total of 11,630 students participated in the Philippines GYTS.

Prevalence

42.8% of students had ever smoked cigarettes (Male = 57.0%, Female = 32.0%)

27.1% currently use any tobacco product (Male = 37.3%, Female =18.4%)

21.6% currently smoke cigarettes (Male = 32.6%, Female =12.9%)

13.6% currently use other tobacco products (Male = 18.3%, Female = 9.5%)

26.5% of never smokers are likely to initiate smoking next year

Knowledge and Attitudes

25.8% think boys and 13.9% think girls who smoke have more friends

13.8% think boys and 8.9% think girls who smoke look more attractive
Access and Availability – Current Smokers

18.5% usually smoke at home

44.8% buy cigarettes in a store

46.6% who bought cigarettes in a store were NOT refused purchase because of their age

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

60.1% live in homes where others smoke

74.6% are around others who smoke in places outside their home

39.2% think smoking should be banned from public places

41.2% think smoke from others is harmful to them

56.3% have one or more parents who smoke

10.6% have most or all friends who smoke

Cessation – Current Smokers

84.8% want to stop smoking

84.0% tried to stop smoking during the past year

90.5% have ever received help to stop smoking

Media and Advertising

83.4% saw anti-smoking media messages, in the past 30 days

84.4% saw pro-cigarette ads on billboards, in the past 30 days

80.4% saw pro-cigarette ads in newspapers or magazines, in the past 30 days

17.8% have an object with a cigarette brand logo

17.6% were offered free cigarettes by a tobacco company representative

School

58.6% had been taught in class, during the past year, about the dangers of smoking

57.7% had discussed in class, during the past year, reasons why people their age smoke

64.1% had been taught in class, during the past year, the effects of tobacco use

Source:Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)

• Studies show that about 67% of men smoke in urban areas (Phnom Penh), while in rural areas, where most people live, about 86% of men smoke.
• Men’s smoking prevalence seems to peak among older men, (50 to 70 years). Some older men began smoking during Pol Pot’s regime in the late 1970s, because smokers were given 10-minute breaks every hour from hard labour by the Khmer Rouge.
• Smoking prevalence among monks is high, particularly in rural areas.
• Tobacco companies are major advertisers, accounting for 13% of all advertising in 2000. In 1997, half of all street advertising was for tobacco products.
• Street advertising of cigarettes rose by 400% between 1994 and 1997.
• In 1997, it was estimated that cigarettes comprised 30% of all imported goods.
• Support for tobacco control is high. A 1997 survey in Phnom Penh found about 80% of respondents believed the government should ban cigarette advertisements.
• The toll from smoking is hard to estimate due to inadequate data, but a 1997 (WHO/MOH) study estimated that 6,000 Cambodians die annually from smoking.
• The average age of smoking initiation is 20 of age for men and 26 year of age for women. About 10% of Cambodians begin to smoke at the age 10-14.
• 75.5% of the population in Cambodia is exposed to Second Hand Smoke. The exposure is higher in urban areas 81% compared to rural areas 74.7% (2004 Tobacco Survey, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning).
• 80% of Cambodian children under 13 years old live in households with at least one regular smoker in the family. This turns into roughly 3.1 Million of children victims of Second Hand Smoke (2004 tobacco, poverty and socioeconomic status in Cambodia by Lidee Khmer).
• 95% of all people who are exposed to Second Hand Smoke at home would support a ban on smoking in a public place.
• The total tobacco spending for the whole Cambodia is evaluated to US$69,442,961. While rural areas are the most populated region of Cambodia and it also bears the most burden of tobacco spending, as the total tobacco spending in rural region is the highest in Cambodia. This aggravates more the poverty in the rural areas ( 2004 tobacco, poverty and socioeconomic status in Cambodia by Lidee Khmer).

Buddhist Monks: Province-specific smoking prevalence rates between 14.6% (Phnom Penh) and 37.50%
(Siem Reap)
Soldiers: 77%
Health professionals: 15%
Teachers: 11%

Smoking Prevalence is about the same for Cambodia as other Asian countries.

Figures from the World Health Organisation & Other Studies.

Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 percent of the people smoke.

Chile’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, approved the law after more than a year of debate that pitted a powerful tobacco lobby against health advocates.

The law limits smoking — but stops short of banning it outright — in bars, restaurants and other public places. It prohibits the sale of cigarettes within 100 yards (metres) of schools.

“We are very content,” said legislator Fulvio Rossi, of the Socialist Party of President Michelle Bachelet.

“It was a challenge to pass, though, with a lot of debate, and there were a lot of interests involved, but it is a law that reconciles the rights of smokers and nonsmokers,” Rossi said.

Twenty-six percent of Chilean teenage girls and the same proportion of teenage boys smoke, according to a study published last year by the government National Narcotics Control Council.

The study, covering 1994 to 2004, showed that 42.5 percent of Chileans aged 12 to 64 were smokers.

That’s a lot!

Under the law, advertising for cigarettes is limited and half the surface of cigarette packs must be printed with warnings about the dangers of smoking.

Tobacco companies, restaurants, bars and other public places have up to 18 months to comply with the new rules.

Legislators started debating the rules last March, when Chile made a commitment to the World Health Organization to bring anti-smoking legislation in line with that of other member countries.

Source: Reuters

A report from the British Medical Association warns 1,000 people are dying every year as a result of passive smoking.

It also calls for a new tax on all tobacco company profits, which it wants to be ploughed in to public awareness campaigns on the health risks of passive smoking.

The BMA says the money could also be put towards the development of smoke-free public places.

The charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has also announced it is to press for a Bill outlawing smoking at work to be introduced, to protect workers from the effects of passive smoking.

It would impose a general ban, but allow exemptions in some circumstances, such as in residential homes.

Eighty per cent of the population do not smoke.

But a quarter live with a smoker, and millions are exposed to smoke fumes in public places.

Vulnerable groups

The BMA says a public place is any enclosed space with public access, such as shops, banks, taxicabs, and the workplace.

A recent poll showed 86% of people were in favour of smoking restrictions at work. But the BMA estimates 3m people are still exposed to tobacco smoke while at work.

It says there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke.

And it warns certain groups are especially vulnerable.

Passive smoking has been linked to lung cancer, heart and circulation problems in adults.

The BMA said those at risk include:

• 8m with lung disease
• 2.1m with angina
• 1.3m who have had a heart attack
• 300,000 who have had a stroke
• 10.8m women of childbearing age
• 750,000 pregnant women

The BMA says children, who make up 20% of the population, are also at risk including the 1.5m who have asthma.

Passive smoking has also been linked with an increased risk of meningitis, cot death and chest infections in children.

Other recommendations of the report include:

• Public information campaigns on the health risks of passive smoking
• Health warnings on cigarettes should make clear the risks, specifically to babies, children, pregnant women and those with heart and lung diseases

Source: BBC News

Over 23,000 people die each year from smoking related illness in Australia (Victoria Canberra Sydney). That means, the cigarette and tobacco companies lose over 23,000 customers a year. Research from the national drug strategy states that tobacco abuse costs Australia (as of April 2003) 21 Billion Dollars in health care, business and other social related costs. Passive smoking (non smokers exposed to smokers smoking) kills over 200 Australians per year, half of them – children. These figures are frightening.

2004
In Australia, Smoking 25 cigarettes a day costs on average $ .70.00 a week or $3,640.00 a year
In Australia, Smoking 50 cigarettes a day costs on average $140.00 a week or $7,280.00 a year

Globally 350,000 people die each month worldwide from smoking. (World Health Organisation) Over 4000 chemicals are found in cigarettes 43 are known to cause cancer.

Tobacco REALLY Kills around 20,000 Australians a year.

That’s more than drugs, alcohol, car accidents, suicides, homicides and AIDS deaths combined. Better health warnings are only part of the solution. We also need higher tobacco taxes, smoke free work and public places, effective ways to protect kids from cigarette advertising, clearer rules on tobacco company behaviour and increased resources for health promotion and cessation programs.

More Information:

Australian Council on Smoking and Health
Quit WA
The Non Smokers’ Movement of Australia
Quit Victoria

• Seventy-five percent of the cigarette smokers reported at least one of the four symptoms of addiction, as compared to 29% of cocaine users, 23% of marijuana users, and 14% of alcohol users
• At least one symptom of addiction was reported by 91% of daily cigarette smokers, as compared to 79% of daily cocaine users, 58% of daily marijuana users, and 48% of daily alcohol users
• Smokers between the ages of 12 and 17 reported symptoms of addiction at lower rates of cigarette consumption than older smokers did. More than one-quarter of 12- to 17-year-olds who smoked one to five cigarettes per day had symptoms of addiction, and so did about 12 percent of those who were less-than-daily smokers

The average smoker takes about 10 puffs on every cigarette, and nicotine levels in the brain peak within 10 seconds of inhaling. Since the satisfaction one gains from smoking lasts only a few minutes, smokers soon crave another cigarette. If one cigarette supplies approximately 10 surges of nicotine to the brain, smoking 1½ packs of cigarettes a day provides a smoker with approximately 300 nicotine hits.

There are some extreme statistics like 90 % of smokers are addicted and that a person who smokes 4 cigarettes is not likely to quit until he/she smokes 400,000 more.

As for how many cigarettes, for some people they will never be addicted, they can be ‘chippers’ or social smokers, they can smoke or not, it doesn’t bother them.

For the rest of us, 3-5 cigarettes is enough to get us addicted and craving for more.

More Information:

Nicotine Addiction
Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry

According to the American Lung Association, the average smoker smokes 15 cigarettes each day.

Two to four cigarettes in a row increase blood fats 200 to 400%. The average smoker (30 cigerettes per day) has 4 to 6 times the chance of having heart disease if he’s in the 45-54 year age group.

Generall the average smoker smokes a cigarette every half-hour or so during the day, so if you are awake 16 hours on average that would give 32 cigaretes.

These figures however are somewhat meaningless due to the fact you can’t really gauge the test to the amount of smoke, or tar and nicotine, which the “average” smoker will draw from any particular cigarette.

No two human smokers smoke in the same way. No individual smoker always smokes in the same fashion. The speed at which one smokes varies both among smokers, and usually also varies with the same individual under different circumstances even within the same day. Some take long puffs (or draws), some take short puffs. That variation affects the tar and nicotine quantity in the smoke generated.

Even with the same type of cigarette, individual smokers take a different number of puffs per cigarette depending upon the circumstances. When concentrating, or talking, the number of puffs is usually less. When listening, or required to listen to another person talking, the number of puffs per cigarette, as well as the duration of each puff, usually increases. Smoking rates while reading a book may differ from smoking rates while viewing a television program. The number of puffs and puff duration (as well as butt length) will vary according to emotional state. Some smokers customarily put their cigarettes down in an ashtray where they burn between puffs; other smokers constantly hold cigarettes in their mouths; others hold them between their fingers.

A study in London UK gave the figure that an average smoker in Britain burns £91,832.43 on cigarettes in his lifetime, in number terms, it is 373,302 cigarettes, or 18,665 packs per smoker.

The study also found that even part-time smokers burn 14.55 cigarettes a week, which is 11,000 pounds during a person’s lifetime.

Another interesting factor that has come out is that 83 per cent of the smokers had attempted to give up the habit at least three times, and about one-third had left it altogether for only two days, the same number for two months, and 15 per cent managed for a year and some 10 per cent got into the habit after 20 or so years.

The below graph shows the average number of ciggarettes smoked by age:

The average smoker has actually changed too, they are no longer casual puffers, but someone deeply physically addicted or leaning on cigarette use for the satisfaction of psychological needs, according to Margo Sidener, executive director of the American Lung Association Santa Clara-San Benito Counties office. For this group, return rates to the habit after one year are high – from a low of 50 percent to a high of 80 percent nationwide – but persistence can be the key to success.

The popular “life saved” calculation used by many who quit smoking estimates life saved at 5 minutes per cigarette not smoked. Is this a real number many people ask.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta says that the “average smoker” dies 7 years earlier than the average non-smoker.

Let’s say for now the average smoker starts around age 17 and smokes about a pack a day for 50 years. If the life span is 74 years then the 7 year penalty for smoking means this person will die around age 67.

This average smoker would smoke 365,250 ciggarettes. If the CDC is correct, these 365,250 cigarettes would equal to 7 years of “life lost” or about 10 minutes “life lost” per cigarette smoked.

If we smoke one ciggarette the harm of that cigarette is practically nil. By smoking a second cigarette the accumulated harm goes up insignificantly. As we keep smoking, the harm rises, slightly at first and then more rapidly, chopping off more and more time from our lifespan. Eventually the accumulated harm causes us to die 7 years earlier than if we smoked.

If we quit after the first cigarette we can expect to live a full life. By smoking a second cigarette our lifespan drops insignificantly. The longer we wait to quit, our lifespan drops, slightly at first and then more rapidly. Eventually there’s seemingly little benefit to quitting and we die 7 years earlier than if we smoked.

To begin, “life shortened” by smoking a cigarete should be the exact opposite of the “life saved” by not smoking that cigarette.

We can take each of the 364,249 cigarettes not smoked, spread them across 7 years and wind up with a straight-line average of 10 minutes of life saved per ciggarete not smoked.

There’s an unhappiness with this straight-line average. The first cigarettes caused little harm so why give each ten minutes of life saved? Because it works out on average and the numbers add up.

As mentioned earlier, cigarettes cause accumulative harm. This accumulative harm rises slowly, insignificantly at first and later exponentially.

Remember that a harm per cigarette doesn’t exist. Each cigarette smoked is really a new accumulative total of harm, harmful but not independently harmful. It doesn’t matter that the last cigarette of a lifelong smoker causes little harm because they are dying anyway. It’s still added to the total accumulative harm. It doesn’t matter that the first cigarettes we smoked might have statistically insignificant harm – it still gets added.

The BBC in 1999 stated it’s around 11 minutes.

For me right now its:

I have stopped smoking for 3 Months, 3 Days, 17 hours, 23 minutes and 48 seconds (95 days). I have saved a massive $670.06 by not smoking 1,914 stinky cigarettes. I have saved an awesome 6 Days, 15 hours and 30 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 8/10/2005 3:00 AM

Don’t try to lose weight AND quit smoking at the same time, as you will inevitably fail both. Juicing fresh fruit and vegetable juices will help you detox too, and is a little more tasty than plain old water.

My favourites would be celery, carrots, apples, oranges and starfruit.

It’s generally accepted that medically the nicotine takes only 72 to 96 hours (3-4 days) to leave the body. As discussed before however, the mental and physical after effects can go on for weeks. For different people the amount of time taken for the nicotine to actually leave can vary.

One thing to note though is the byproducts of nicotine can be detected in the blood for up to a month after you stop smoking and can be detected by tests.

Whether nicotine dependency was established and/or maintained by being smoked, chewed, inhaled, drank, snuffed, sprayed, swallowed, sucked, licked or patched, in the end there is only one way out – no more nicotine.

It might take you 2-3 months before you really have no more cravings for the last hit and for some is up to 6 months to be totally clear.

I’ve collected some statistics on smoking and smoking related deaths in Canada.

As you can see below, Tobacco is the greatest risk of death in Canada by quite a considerable amount.

The Percentage of smokers aged 15 years and older has been going down gradually over the years as shown below.

As you can see in 2002 it’s around 20% where as just 35 years ago it was close to 50%!

The number of deaths however has increased.

As you can see it’s a scary figure now, this might be due to better recording facilities in modern times, more accurate statistics or due to less pure cigarettes with all the chemicals and addictive junk manufacturers put into cigarettes nowdays making them more addictive AND more harmful.

The deaths peaked around 1995 and have started to decline again slightly.

As for resources you can check out:

Qutting Smoking with the Canadian Cancer Society
Quit Smoking Info from Health Canada

There are Toll Free numbers you can call for each province here, includes ( Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut).