This picture offered by Well being Canada reveals the ultimate wording of six separate warnings that can be printed straight on particular person cigarettes as Canada turns into the primary on the earth to take that step geared toward serving to folks give up the behavior. The rules take impact Aug. 1 and can be phased in.
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This picture offered by Well being Canada reveals the ultimate wording of six separate warnings that can be printed straight on particular person cigarettes as Canada turns into the primary on the earth to take that step geared toward serving to folks give up the behavior. The rules take impact Aug. 1 and can be phased in.
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TORONTO — Canada will quickly grow to be the primary nation on the earth the place warning labels should seem on particular person cigarettes.
The transfer was first introduced final yr by Well being Canada and is geared toward serving to folks give up the behavior. The rules take impact Aug. 1 and can be phased in. King-size cigarettes would be the first to characteristic the warnings and can be offered in shops by the top of July 2024, adopted by regular-size cigarettes, and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes by the top of April 2025.
“This daring step will make well being warning messages just about unavoidable,” Psychological Well being and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett stated Wednesday.
The warnings — in English and French — embody “poison in each puff,” “tobacco smoke harms kids” and “cigarettes trigger impotence.”
Well being Canada stated the technique goals to scale back tobacco use beneath 5% by 2035. New rules additionally strengthen health-related graphic photographs displayed on packages of tobacco.
Bennett’s assertion stated tobacco use kills 48,000 Canadians yearly.
Doug Roth, chief govt of the Coronary heart & Stroke charity, stated the daring measure will be sure that risks to lung well being can’t be missed.
The Canadian Most cancers Society stated the measure will scale back smoking and the enchantment of cigarettes, thus stopping most cancers and different illnesses.
Rob Cunningham, senior coverage analyst on the Canadian Most cancers Society, stated well being messaging can be conveyed in each puff and through each smoke break. Canada, he added, can have the perfect tobacco well being warning system on the earth.
Tobacco promoting, promotion and sponsorship are banned in Canada and warnings on cigarette packs have existed since 1972.
In 2001, Canada grew to become the primary nation to require tobacco firms to incorporate image warnings on the surface of cigarette packages and embody inserts with well being messages.
