Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette
www.bbc.co.uk
Canada is the first nation to use warnings on individual cigarettes in an effort to deter smoking.
  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
    52·
    11 months ago

    Wow is this new over there? Here in Australia we have strongly worded warnings about cancer and death along with photographs of fucked up looking feet from associated illnesses and people dying in hospital beds with breathing masks and tubes everywhere and fucked up looking lungs from autopsies of smokers.

    • Exadyne@lemmy.ca
      14·
      11 months ago

      Those sorts of warnings / graphic images are already present on the cigarette packaging in Canada. What’s new is that now the warnings will also be printed directly on each individual cigarette!

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
        7·
        11 months ago

        Serves me right for commenting something based on the title and not reading the link linked article. It’s even right there in the thumbnail

    • rumbleran@suppo.fi
      5·
      11 months ago

      And every smoker already knows that cigarettes have lots of negative health effects but still smoke anyways because they like it and are willing to gamble. So I wonder what’s the point in this?

    • BenGFHC@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I think they’re saying they will put the warnings on individual cigarettes now. Not just the box