Canada, in a world first, proposes health warnings on individual cigarettes

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OTTAWA, June 11 ― Canada is proposing that written health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes, the first country in the world to do so, a federal minister said...

OTTAWA, June 11 ― Canada is proposing that written health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes, the first country in the world to do so, a federal minister said yesterday.

“Adding health warnings on individual tobacco products will help ensure that these essential messages reach people, including the youth, who often access cigarettes one at a time in social situations sidestepping the information printed on a package,” she told reporters. A 75-day public consultation period will start on June 11 and this will inform the development of the proposed new regulations, it added.Rothmans Benson & Hedges, the Canadian unit of Philip Morris International, said the proposals would not help cut the number of smokers.

The other two major vendors of tobacco products in Canada are subsidiaries of British American Tobacco PLC and Japan Tobacco Inc. Neither company was immediately available for comment.

 

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