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Research shows that plain packaging of tobacco products is an effective way to deter people from starting to smoke and will bolster our efforts to reduce tobacco use in Canada. Existing controls require that tobacco be kept out of view in retail outlets, so its hard to fathom how smokers would be further deterred by insisting that cigarettes be sold in consistent packages and dictating the length and diameter of the product

Tobacco products contain a complex mixture of natural plant chemicals, agricultural chemicals, and compounds formed during processing, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic

Notes: Colors represent rate environments as follows: Rising Rates (gray, quarters with increases exceeding 0.25 percentage points), Falling Rates (light blue, quarters with decreases exceeding 0.25 percentage points), Stable High Rates (yellow, rates at or above 3 percent with minimal change), Stable Low Rates (dark blue, rates below 3 percent with minimal change), and High Rates (orange, representing peak rate periods)

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