Help keep Alberta kids tobacco free for life!
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and illness in Alberta.
The Lung Association, Alberta & NWT (TLA) is committed to helping prevent tobacco use, particularly among our youth, as well as supporting individuals in their efforts to quit smoking. We are pleased to offer a progam designed to help:
Tobacco products are geared towards creating and maintaining dependence. Cigarettes contain 7000 pharmacologically active, toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic substances, 70 of which are known to cause cancer.
Visit The Lung Association Alberta & NWT's quit smoking resource centre for Alberta specific information.
SMOKING AND TOBACCO NEWS AND EVENTS
[July 7, 2010]
Study reveals Canadians with lung cancer are too often stigmatized
[July 7, 2010]
The law can tell the difference but our kids can't
[July 5, 2010]
Cracking down on tobacco marketing aimed at youth
[June 29,2010]
Flavored cigarellos off store shelves July 5
[June 24, 2010]
Government praised for drop in smoking
[June 24, 2010]
Alberta Government Receives Tobacco Reduction Award
[March 25 - 26, 2010]
Tobacco Stakeholders Workshop
[May 26, 2009]
The Lung Association Applauds Federal Government's Changes to Tobacco Act