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