New Health Canada regulations will require warning labels on individual cigarettes — a global first. But as Canada works to tackle smoking prevalence, most other countries are struggling to keep up.
Manufacturers have until the end of July 2024 to ensure the warnings are printed on all king-size cigarettes sold. Those requirements will extend to regular-size cigarettes, and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes, in April 2025.
"We have nearly a billion smokers in the world, and then several hundred million more people that use other tobacco products," he told Cullen.Will in-your-face anti-smoking messages get more people to quit?New, pushier anti-smoking messages will soon be literally in the face of smokers on every cigarette they puff. Cigarette packaging will also receive an update.
"On the other hand, this one's a no-brainer. There really is no question here that this is preventable death and disease and economic cost, and these are things that really with a very, very clear menu of policies that can be implemented, they can reverse this trend quite readily."Another challenge is dealing with tobacco companies. Drope said tobacco industries have led effective marketing efforts which have particularly hit young populations in developing countries.
"What we'd rather do is create a cohort of young people who never have the opportunity to purchase tobacco and so essentially grow it out of the population over time," said Chris Bullen, a professor of Public Health at the University of Auckland. "We have the likelihood of a change of government at the end of this year," he said. "I'm nervous that the incoming government might take a softer stance and not drive things as hard as our current government under our present minister."
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