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Gender Differences in Smoking Uptake and Tobacco Use Among Adolescents

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An Act to prohibit the importation, manufacture and sale of opium for other than medicinal purposes

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Even though the Royal Commission of 1885 did not recommend specific measures governing the production or use of smoking opium, it did indicate that smoking such a substance was a pagan practice incompatible with the lifestyle of a Christian nation.[21] According to Line Beauchesne, the crusade against opium that followed this report gradually resulted in a decline in opium smoking.[22] The results of an investigation conducted by the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1903 into drug use claimed that drug consumption was widespread throughout American society, but involved two social groups more specifically: Chinese immigrants and Bl ...[+++]acks.

In 1883, there were three factories producing smoking opium in Victoria and in 1891, there were more than 10 opium dens in the Chinese districts of large cities in the Canadian West.[19] The surge in this industry was beneficial to the British Columbia government since it imposed a customs tariff on crude opium of 10% to 25%.

Under section 8, it is prohibited for the occupier knowingly to permit premises to be used for: production; the supply of any controlled drug; the preparation of opium for smoking; or the smoking of cannabis, cannabis resin or prepared opium.

Some of them brought with them smoking opium, and they began to set up smoking opium factories.