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Article History

Received: 28 August 2020

Accepted: 16 December 2020

First Online: 7 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Research Ethics Board (REB) at Unity Health Toronto, Canada approved the research protocol. Prior to the interview, all participants received an informed consent sheet containing details of the study, contact information for the researchers and the REB. Given that the interviews were conducted over the telephone, verbal consent was obtained and audio recorded by the interviewer prior to initiating the interviews. This process was approved by the REB at Unity Health Toronto.

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: AS is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. AL is supported by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, as Clinician Scientist by the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto and as Chair of Implementation Science at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Women’s Cancers at Women’s College Hospital in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society. AL is the Provincial Primary Care Lead for Cancer Screening at Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario). GL is supported by the Lusi Wong Early Detection of Lung Cancer Program and the Alan B. Brown Chair. GL has received funding from an unrestricted Boehringer Ingerheim grant to develop and implement electronic methods of identifying patients suitable for lung cancer screening in family physician offices. SH holds the Chair in Homelessness, Housing and Health at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. PS is a Clinician Scientist funded by CAMH, DFCM and the MOHLTC to direct the STOP program- An Ontario wide smoking cessation program focused on reducing inequities of access for discriminated and underrepresented populations. He also receives support from the Medical Psychiatry Alliance. He has independent grants from the GRAND program, created as an arms-length peer reviewed program for smoking cessation. He is an advisor to both Cancer Care Ontario and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) on tobacco cessation in patients with Cancer. EN is an employee of the CPAC, a pan-Canadian health organization, funded by Health Canada.