Welcome to our website

This website is hosted by the Aboriginal Tobacco Strategy of Cancer Care Ontario. It has been created with input from Aboriginal youth and guidance from community Elders.

It's part of a movement to create tobacco wise media messages with and for Aboriginal youth. Someone who is tobacco wise knows the difference between traditional and commercial tobacco and is empowered to make the necessary changes to protect their well being and that of their friends and community.

Some things you will find here:

• A media library with downloadable radio public service announcements and posters created with the help of Aboriginal youth across Ontario
• Information on tobacco and your health
• Information about Traditional Tobacco
• Teachings about tobacco from the Elders
• A quiz to show what you know about tobacco
• A survey to let us know how we improve our site

Aboriginal Tobacco Strategy

The ATS works with Aboriginal communities to decrease and prevent the misuse of tobacco.

Many Aboriginal communities have a unique and sacred relationship with Traditional Tobacco. In those communities, the ACCU is not seeking to create "tobacco free" communities; rather we want to create "tobacco wise" communities that use tobacco in a sacred way and not to feed a powerful and deadly addiction.