Health Canada’s new regulations that require warning labels to be printed on individual cigarettes are set to come into effect this summer.
Health Canada said Wednesday , on World No Tobacco Day, that the goal of the strategy is to reach less than five per cent tobacco use by 2035 as part of new regulations that will also strengthen health-related graphic images displayed on tobacco packages.The regulations will come into force on Aug. 1 and will be implemented through a phased approach.
She said the regulator hosted a roundtable Wednesday with Canadian researchers and one from Harvard University, “and they’re all thrilled” about Canada’s approach to putting warning son each cigarette. Dozens of studies in Canada and elsewhere have supported the move to print warnings on each cigarette.
“It’s going to reach kids who experiment by borrowing a cigarette from their friends. It is very cost-effective because tobacco companies pay for it. And it reaches smokers through almost 20 billion cigarettes sold each year in Canada,” Cunningham said.
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