In the more populated provinces, smoking rates are highest in Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. About one-quarter of adults smoke in these provinces. Smoking rates are lowest in Ontario (19.8%) and British Columbia (18.6%).

Canadians born in 2005 will live for an average of 80.4 years. Life expectancy at birth in 2005 was 78.0 years for men and 82.7 years for women. People born in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut had the lowest life expectancy, at 76.3 years. People born in British Columbia had the highest life expectancy, at 81.2 years.

8.4 percent of Canadians suffer from asthma. Rates are highest in Manitoba (10.4 percent) and lowest in British Columbia (7.4 percent). Females throughout Canada suffer higher rates of asthma than males.