CMAJ • September 15, 2009; 181 (6-7). First published September 8, 2009; doi:10.1503/cmaj.090665
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Use of contraband cigarettes among adolescent daily smokers in Canada

Russell C. Callaghan, PhD, Scott Veldhuizen, BA, Scott Leatherdale, PhD, Donna Murnaghan, MN and Steve Manske, EdD

From the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Callaghan, Veld-huizen), Toronto, Ont.; the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Callaghan, Leatherdale), University of Toronto, Toronto; the Department of Population Studies and Surveillance (Leatherdale), Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto; the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology (Leatherdale, Manske) and the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (Manske), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.; and the School of Nursing (Murnaghan), University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI

Correspondence to: Russell C. Callaghan, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell St., Toronto ON M5S 2S1; fax 416 595-6899; russell_callaghan{at}camh.net

Current tobacco-control strategies seek to inhibit and reduce smoking among adolescents. However, such strategies are probably undermined by the contraband tobacco market. Using data from Canada’s 2006/2007 Youth Smoking Survey, we found that 13.1% of respondents who were daily smokers reported that contraband cigarettes were their usual brand. They consumed significantly more cigarettes than respondents who smoked other brands. Contraband cigarettes accounted for about 17.5% of all cigarettes smoked by adolescent daily smokers in Canada overall, and for more than 25% in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.


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