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Cigarettes on the ground. Image: christie yunhwa/Flickr
Legal cannabis enters into debate about where Canadians can smoke
Celia Chandler, Pro Bono | For the past 60 years, Canada has progressively shrunk the spaces where people can smoke -- including private spaces. The legalization of cannabis is unlikely to reverse that trend.
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Derek Fildebrandt
Big Tobacco's doubtful claim high taxes encourage cigarette smuggling finds support on Alberta's Wildrose benches
David J. Climenhaga | Empirical evidence in which we can have confidence suggests the Wildrose Party's arguments against higher taxes on tobacco are just so much smoke in the wind.
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Let's get serious about cigarette litter -- no ifs, ands or butts!
David Suzuki | Cigarette butts are small and many smokers may think nothing of tossing them to the ground, but they make up one of the largest sources of toxic litter worldwide.
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Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith
Where there's smoke, there's fire: Danielle Smith and Big Tobacco
David J. Climenhaga | Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith has worked for three well known far-right organizations that have all shilled for the tobacco industry.
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Murdoch's ties to Big Tobacco
Donald Gutstein | Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in recent days, but it wasn't too long ago his media properties were providing a supportive environment for Big Tobacco.
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Weekly Pulse: The new hunger epidemic, making CPCs come clean and smoking hipsters
Lindsay Beyerstein | As some Americans obsess over whether to brine or deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkeys, others are going hungry.