We hardly ever stop to take a breath! Keep up-to-date with the Lung Health Foundation’s latest news:
Media Release
Lung Health Foundation and Ontario Ministry of Education Partner to Launch First Judgement-Free Initiative to “Quash” High School Vaping Crisis
On the frontlines: Our mobile smoking & vaping quit app Quash is hitting 100+ Ontario high schools this spring.
The Alliance for a Tobacco Free Ontario applauds the Chief Medical Officer Health of Ontario for a comprehensive 2023 Annual Report addressing tobacco and vape use
In March 2024, the Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) for Ontario released an extensive report focused on substance use and its detrimental effects. The report presents a strong strategic plan aimed at addressing tobacco and vape use and its repercussions. The Alliance for a Tobacco Free Ontario (ATFO) which includes the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, the Canadian Lung Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the Ontario Public Health Association, the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, and the Lung Health Foundation strongly supports the report and its recommendations, particularly its holistic strategy for tackling not only tobacco and vaping use, but also other new nicotine products, essential for protecting Ontarians.
Lung Health Foundation recognizes the Ford Government’s vape tax as the first crucial first step to addressing the youth vaping crisis
This is a positive step toward addressing a growing youth vaping crisis and building a Smoke-Free Generation!
Lung News
Provinces Will Receive $24.7 Billion from the Tobacco Settlement. Let Them Know There’s a Right Way to Spend It.
We’re getting loud about directly addressing the decades of harm caused by commercial tobacco products in Canada. Get loud with us.
Lung Health IS Women’s Health: 3 Surprising Facts on International Women’s Day
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, Accelerate Action, emphasizes the urgency of addressing systemic barriers, challenging biases, and fast-tracking progress towards gender equality. With this vision in mind, here are three things that we’d like you to know about lung health (and the women who are transforming it!)
Our health-care system isn’t taking lung health seriously and that’s costing lives
Thousands of Ontarians are dying needlessly because their lung disease wasn’t caught early, they couldn’t access the right specialists or they lacked treatment options.
Blog
This May, Leave a Legacy That Breathes Life Into the Future
Lung disease is the third leading cause of death in Canada—but it doesn’t have to be.
This Leave a Legacy Month, we’re asking a simple, powerful question: What if your legacy could help change that?
New Treatment Option Moving Towards Reimbursement for Adults with Operable Early-Stage NSCLC
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is one step closer to being funded via Canada’s various provincial drug plans for the treatment of adults with operable stage II, IIIA, or IIIB (T3 to 4N2) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to be used with chemotherapy before surgery to shrink the cancer and then used on its own after surgery to help keep the cancer from coming back, if certain conditions are met.
Know More, Breathe Better: How to Tell if Your Asthma is Well Controlled
May is World Asthma Awareness Month, and the Lung Health Foundation is here to help guide the 4.6 million Canadians who live with this chronic condition. Better breathing starts with better control.