Patterns and Trends Report

The fourth edition of the Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends report was released in January 2013. This edition updates the previous versions with current data, including the 2010-2011 Youth Smoking Survey and the 2011 wave of Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring. The report pulls together existing data to create an overview of tobacco use patterns and trends in Canada. The aim is to enable those responsible for tobacco control policies, programs, advocacy, research, evaluation and surveillance to assess progress and to update action plans, based on the best possible evidence about tobacco use in our country.

Tobacco use continues to be a leading preventable cause of death, with a substantial social and economic impact on the Canadian population. The aim of this report is to enable those responsible for tobacco control policies, programs, advocacy, research, evaluation and surveillance to assess progress and to update action plans, based on the best possible evidence about tobacco use in our country.

The Tobacco Report includes an electronic version of the report, as well as the 100+ figures and tables included in the report (available for individual download and use), and data tables for each (including confidence intervals for estimates), in order to enable the extraction of more precise numbers.