Canada becomes 1st country to put health warnings on individual cigarettes
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Canada will begin putting individual warning labels on cigarettes and other tobacco products to further reduce their appeal, becoming the world's first country to do so.
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In Canada, each cigarette will get a warning label: ‘poison in every puff’
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Canada becomes 1st country to put health warnings on individual cigarettes
Canada announced Wednesday it will require health warnings to be printed directly on every individual cigarette – the first country in the world to do so.
Canada will implement new regulations requiring warning labels on individual cigarettes, making it the first country to do so. The move is aimed at helping people quit smoking.
Canada will soon require that health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes and cigars in a further crackdown on smoking, the country's addictions minister announced Wednesday.
What happened: Canada is about to become the first country in the world to mandate health warnings on individual cigarettes. • The new regulations, announced last year by the Canadian health care bureaucracy, take effect in August and will be phased in through 2025.
Cigarettes sold in Canada will bear one of six messages in English and French, including “TOBACCO HARMS CHILDREN,” “POISON IN EVERY PUFF” and “SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCE.”
Canada will begin putting individual warning labels on cigarettes and other tobacco products to further reduce their appeal, becoming the world's first country to do so.
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers in Canada will soon see health warnings on each and every cigarette they light up. The country will be the first in
