Smoke Atlas: Smoking and Vaping Rules Across Canada

Start with what you need

Tools people use most

• The cost of smoking calculator turns your own pack price into a weekly, yearly and ten-year total.
• The quit-smoking savings calculator shows what you would keep once you stop.
• The tobacco allowance checker tells you what you can bring into Canada duty-free.
• The cigarette tax breakdown splits a price into federal tax, provincial tax and the rest.
• The lung screening checker lines up the criteria that provincial programs publish.
• The city bylaws database lets you search rules for parks, patios and doorways.

Find a topic

• Laws and places: smoking laws, workplace rules, smoking in cars and fines.
• Money: prices and taxes, tax rates by province and why Quebec cigarettes cost less.
• Vaping: the legal vaping age, flavour bans and how to quit vaping.
• Health: what smoking does to the lungs, what happens when you quit and smoking and heart disease.
• Your province: the provincial and territorial hubs pull together the rules, taxes and quit help for each one.

What changed lately

Rules change more often than people expect. The law changes page lists new federal and provincial rules with their dates, newest first, and links to the official notice and to the guides we updated.

How we work

Every statement about a law, a rate or an age is tied to an official page: the statute itself, a ministry or Health Canada. Each guide shows when we last checked it and when the next check is due. If we could not confirm something on an official page, the guide says so and leaves the number out.

You can read how we check facts on the methodology page and the editorial policy, and learn more about the site on the about page. If you spot something out of date, tell us and include the page address.