Youth continue to use flavoured tobacco products at high levels

Data released today based on the 2012/13 Youth Smoking Survey shows that young people are continuing to use flavoured tobacco products at high levels. Results show that 50% of high school students in Canada who used tobacco products in the previous 30 days used flavoured tobacco products. "Today’s survey proves that flavoured tobacco is a major threat to young people’s health,” says Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Cancer Society. "Flavoured tobacco products were used by 137,000 high school students in Canada, which is troubling. The Society is very concerned that fruit-and-candy-flavoured tobacco make it easier for youth to become addicted to tobacco. New legislation is needed as soon as possible to ban all flavoured tobacco products." Read more here.

Read the full report, Flavoured tobacco use among Canadian youth: evidence from Canada's 2012/2013 youth smoking survey, here.