Resources By Audience

Looking for information that speaks directly to you? This section presents resources related to tobacco created especially for you. If you can't find the resource you are looking for, consult our Reports and Publications index page

• General Public
• Health Professionals
• Media
• Parents and Families
• Policy Makers and Researchers
• Quitters
• Teachers
• Youth and Young Adults
• Aboriginal peoples off-reserves

General Public

• It Will Never Happen to Me
• Help Your Child Stay Smoke-free
• Make your home and car smoke-free: A guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke

Health Professionals

• Expecting to Quit: A Best Practices Review of Smoking Cessation Interventions for Pregnant and Postpartum Girls and Women
•  New Online Course for Health Professionals: Tobacco and Public Health: From Theory to Practice - The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative
• Quit Smoking Telephone Counselling Protocol for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
• Francophones and Tobacco Use in Canada: Lessons Learned from the Tobacco Demand Reduction Strategy 1994-1997 (1999)
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls
• Getting smoke-free: An Information kit for community organizations working with women

Media

• List of Factsheets
• Mass Media Campaigns
• The Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Legislation on the Hospitality Industry
•  The Economic Impact of a Smoke-free Bylaw on Restaurant and Bar Sales in Ottawa, Canada (PDF Version - 155 K)
• Health Canada News Releases

Parents and Families

• Help Your Child Stay Smoke-free
• Make your home and car smoke-free: A guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke
• Tips for families and friends to help someone quit
•  Quit 4 Life - Handbook and Web site designed for youth wanting to quit.

Policy Makers and Researchers

• The Tobacco Act
• The Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Legislation on the Hospitality Industry:
•  The Economic Impact of a Smoke-free Bylaw on Restaurant and Bar Sales in Ottawa, Canada
• Tobacco Control Strategy Reports
• Tobacco Regulations
• Tobacco Research published by Health Canada
• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative

Quitters

• On the Road to Quitting Booklet
•  Quit 4 Life - This 4-step program is designed to help Canadians aged 12 to 18 quit smoking.
• You can quit smoking. We can help.

Teachers

• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative
• It Will Never Happen to Me
• School-based smoking prevention: Economic costs versus benefits
• Smoke Free Spaces Activist Tool Kit (For Youth)
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls

Science, Tobacco and You. A Prevention Teaching Resource for Grades 4-6

Discover the benefits of an education package with activities designed to help students learn about tobacco and its negative effects on the human body. This program contains an easy-to-use, interactive CD-ROM, and a teachers' resource guide with non-sequenced sample lesson plans, short, fun assignments, and a series of student Quest cards. Science, Tobacco and You is ideal for use in health, science, language arts, drama, visual arts and mathematics programs.

Youth and Young Adults

• Evaluation of the Quit4Life Youth Cessation Demonstration Project
• It Will Never Happen to Me
• Quit4Life - 12 Month Follow-up Evaluation
• National Forum on Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Control Issues - 2005
  • Forum Story
  • Evaluation Report
• Youth and Tobacco: Lessons Learned from the Tobacco Demand Reduction Strategy (1999)
• Cigarette Smoking and Young Women's Presentation of Self
• Quit 4 Life - Handbook and Web site designed for youth wanting to quit
• Looking for homework Help?
• Smoke Free Spaces Activist Tool Kit (For Youth)[
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls

Aboriginal peoples off-reserves

• Tobacco