We hardly ever stop to take a breath! Keep up-to-date with the Lung Health Foundation’s latest news.
LHF in the News

July 28, 2025
Ontario’s $1.8 billion investment in primary care is a crucial step but we must integrate specialized lung health expertise to address the silent epidemic of respiratory illness, says an expert from the Lung Health Foundation.

May 14, 2025
Canada should support a landmark WHO resolution addressing the alarming rise in both communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases.
Media Release

October 23, 2024
The Lung Health Foundation (LHF), the premier resource on lung health for all Canadians, is urging all Canadians to act on findings presented in the 2024 Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Exposure in the Residential Buildings of Urban and Rural Communities, issued today by the Evict Radon National Study.

October 18, 2024
On October 17, news broke that all 10 provinces and three territories would benefit from a landmark $24.8 billion settlement against JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc., and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. Meanwhile, a mediator-lead settlement would award further billion dollar compensation to several class-action lawsuits in Quebec.

July 17, 2024
Ready. Set. Breathe, Canada. Something exciting is in the air as the Lung Health Foundation (LHF) teams with Olympic champion and lung health advocate Maggie Mac Neil for a “breathtaking” multi-platform national awareness campaign just in time for the Paris Summer Games. Canada’s trusted go-to public resource for lung health has partnered with the 100m butterfly gold medalist – one of 3.8 million Canadians who live with asthma – to make waves showcasing how our lungs are the real champions of athletic excellence, and of life’s everyday moments.
Blog

June 10, 2026
Lung Health Foundation, in partnership with LungNSPEI, is proud to support innovative research that strengthens efforts to reduce the harms associated with tobacco and nicotine use across Atlantic Canada.

June 8, 2026
To help our coast-to-coast community prepare, the Lung Health Foundation has created this simple preparation checklist. It will be of special interest to people who live near typical fire zones – but remember, the effects of wildfire smoke can often travel thousands of kilometers away.

May 30, 2026
Over 20 key health organizations and tobacco control experts from across the country convened in Ottawa this weekend for a national roundtable on the future of tobacco control in Canada. Concerned with high rates of youth vaping and the increasing use of nicotine pouches, the roundtable participants released a consensus statement calling for a new national target of reducing nicotine use to less than 5% by 2045. The existing target of less than 5% tobacco use by 2035 was reaffirmed.
