Canada will be the first country in the world to require that health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes, the country's health ministry announced Wednesday."Tobacco smoke harms children." The Canadian government has a goal of reducing the rate of tobacco use from the current level of 13% to less than 5% of Canadians by 2035. In the United States, 19% of adults use tobacco products, according to the The new requirements will be phased in beginning Aug.
Canada already requires the front and back of tobacco packages to devote 75% of space to pictorial health warnings and contact information for people to get help quitting tobacco use. "This bold step will make health warning messages virtually unavoidable, and together with updated graphic images displayed on the package, will provide a real and startling reminder of the health consequences of smoking," said Carolyn Bennett, MD, Canada's minister of mental health and addictions, in a
."We will continue to do whatever it takes to help more people in Canada stop smoking and help young people to live healthy tobacco-free lives." that people who smoke one pack per day would see at least 7,300 anti-smoking messages per year with the new initiative. "There are no public health messages or messages of any kind that have that type of exposure," Geoffrey Fong, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Waterloo, told the ."There's a lot of potential for these dissuasive warning labels, dissuasive cigarettes, to be impactful.
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