Ottawa – Smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide. Every time you smoke a cigarette, it harms your health. When a cigarette is burned, you become exposed to the addictive substance in the tobacco, nicotine, as well as harmful chemicals that are created through the burning process, including carbon monoxide and other chemicals that cause …
New funding of $2.45 million to support the priorities of the Action Plan. Ottawa – Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) are largely preventable, treatable, and in many cases curable. However, rates of sexually transmitted infections in Canada have increased over the last decade—gonorrhea rates have doubled since 2012, and syphilis rates are five times what they were. That is why today, …
