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| LAFL | Lungs Are For Life |
| Land Use Ordinance | synonym for Zoning Law |
| Late Relapse | recommencement of smoking behaviour after a period of abstinence that has lasted at least 6 to 12 monthsReference: Wetter DW, Cofta-Gunn L, Fouladi RT, Cinciripini PM, Sui D, Gritz DR. Late relapse/sustained abstinence among former smokers: a longitudinal study. Preventive Medicine 2004;39(6):1156-1163. |
| LEARN | Learning through Evidence, Action and Reflection Networks |
| Learning through Evidence, Action and Reflection Networks | a joint knowledge exchange project with the Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC) and tobacco control practitioners in Ontariohttp://www.ptcc-cfc.on.ca/ |
| Leave The Pack Behind (LTPB) | Ontario post-secondary campus tobacco control program providing information and services to young adult smokers and nonsmokers http://www.leavethepackbehind.org/ |
| Legal Smoking Age | synonym for Minimum AgeReference: Ahmad S. Closing the youth access gap: the projected health benefits and cost savings of a national policy to raise the legal smoking age to 21 in the United States. Health Policy 2005;75(1):74-84. |
| Legislation | (1) exercise of the power of making laws that have the force of authority by virtue of their promulgation by an official organ of the state; (2) in Ontario, encompasses both Acts enacted by the Legislature and regulations made by a person or body whose authority to make them is set out in the Act |
| LHIN | (Ontario) Local Health Integration Network |
| License | permission granted by competent authority to engage in a business, activity or occupation otherwise unlawful, which may be authenticated by a document, plate or tag, e.g., tobacco retail license |
| License Fee | money paid by a person or business to the competent authority for the right to engage in a business, activity or occupation otherwise unlawful, e.g., tobacco retail license feeReference: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. The Tobacco Control Environment: Ontario and Beyond. [Special Reports: Monitoring and Evaluation Series, 2007-2008 (Vol. 14, No. 1)]. Prohibition of Tobacco Sales in Specific Places. Monitoring Update. Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, 2008. Available at: http://www.otru.org/pdf/14mr/14mr_no1_4.pdf; accessed Feb. 11, 2009. |
| Lifestyle Advertising | tobacco industry attempt through direct or indirect advertising to create an association in the mind of the public between the use of tobacco products and positive socioeconomic outcomes, e.g., social and financial success |
| Lifetime Abstinence | smoking status often defined as never having had even a single puff of a cigarette in a lifetime |
| Lifetime Risk | the probability that a person will develop or die of a disease at some point during his or her lifetime, e.g., if the lifetime risk of developing lung cancer for a never smoker were one in 50, then a never smoker would have a 2% chance of developing lung cancer at some point in his or her lifetime |
| "Light" Cigarette | misleading tobacco industry label to describe lower-tar or lower-nicotine cigarettes, which along with the label “mild” cigarette the major tobacco companies in Canada voluntarily agreed to stop using as of July 31, 2007Available at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/fact-fait/fs-if/lightmild-legeresdouces-eng.php; accessed Feb. 13, 2009. |
| Listing Allowance | synonym for Slotting Fee |
| Litigation | resolution of dispute by lawsuit and judicial process, e.g., against the tobacco industry (see also Healthcare Cost Recovery Legislation) |
| Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) | since 2007, division of Ontario healthcare providers into 14 regional groupings established for planning, funding and delivering local healthcare services http://www.lhins.on.ca/ |
| Logic Model | graphic depiction of presumed causal pathways that connect tobacco control program inputs, activities, outputs and outcomesReference: Copley TT, Lovato CY, O’Connor S. Indicators for Monitoring Tobacco Control: A Resource for Decision-Makers, Evaluators and Researchers. On behalf of the National Advisory Group on Monitoring and Evaluation. Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, Toronto, 2006. Available at: http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~manske/Tools/Copley%202006%20Core%20Indicators%20Report.pdf; accessed Mar. 13, 1009. |
| Logistic Regression | statistical method for calculating the relative contribution of separate risk factors to an occurrence, e.g., a new case of a disease |
| Longitudinal Study | a type of prospective study that deals with the status of an individual or group according to measurements taken at regular intervals over a number of years, e.g., the Ontario Tobacco Survey (OTS)Reference: Last JM (ed.). A Dictionary of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. |
| Loophole | ambiguity or omission in a policy or legislative text through which the intent of the policy or law may be evaded, e.g., Roll-Your-Own Loophole |
| Loose Tobacco | tobacco product, including cigarette and pipe tobacco, which is not ready to be smoked until it is rolled into a cigarette or placed in a pipe |
| Looseleaf Chewing Tobacco | synonym for Chew |
| Low-Risk | individual or group judged unlikely to engage in smoking behaviour, e.g., lifetime abstainers with a firm intention not to experiment with smoking |
| LTC | Long Term Care |
| LTPB | Leave the Pack Behind |
| Lung Association | see Canadian Lung Association |
| Lung Cancer | highly preventable and often fatal type of cancer typically caused by smoking tobacco products |
| Lungs Are For Life (LAFL) | Ontario Lung Association program for children and students from kindergarten to grade 12 providing tobacco-related information and refusal skills http://www.lungsareforlife.ca/ |
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The OTRU Glossary of Tobacco Control provides brief definitions of over 1,000 tobacco control terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Definitions are based on many sources including dictionaries, legislative texts, websites, reports, books, peer-reviewed journal articles and communications from tobacco control experts. A single definition often reflects material from more than one source.
While we have tried to be comprehensive in producing this resource, the language of tobacco control is constantly evolving and there may be relevant terms that are not listed or terms whose meanings may have changed.
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