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Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes
    #28416785 - 08/01/23 09:23 PM (9 months, 12 days ago)

‘Poison in every puff’: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes
August 1, 2023 - The Guardian

The first-of-its-kind measure is part of a sweeping new set of tobacco regulations to tighten controls over the industry

Individual cigarettes in Canada will now carry warnings such as “poison in every puff” and “cigarettes cause impotence” in what the government says is an effort to make it “virtually impossible to avoid health warnings altogether”.

The measure, the first of its kind in the world, is part of a sweeping set of new tobacco regulations coming into effect on Tuesday that will see tight controls phased in over the next two years.

“Tobacco use continues to kill 48,000 Canadians each year. We are taking action by being the first country in the world to label individual cigarettes with health warning messages,” said Carolyn Bennett, who was minister of mental health and addictions when the rules were first announced. (Bennett was shuffled out of cabinet last week after announcing her departure from federal politics.)

The move is the latest in a long series of measures to curb smoking from the Canadian government.

About 13% of Canadians use tobacco, costing the public healthcare system more than $6bn annually, the government says. In 1965, about half of Canadians smoked.

The smoking rate in Canada has steadily declined as public awareness of smoking’s dangers has grown. Federal and provincial regulations on tobacco sales, use, taxation and advertising have also led to declining rates in all age groups.

Canada was the first country in the world to require cigarette makers put pictorial warnings on cigarette packages, in 2001. Bans on indoor smoking followed later that decade.

Research suggests that periodically refreshing warnings with new images and text is an effective way to raise awareness of health effects among smokers.

The new rules taking effect this week – known as Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations (TPAPLR) – mean that the warning messages will change every two to three years, depending on the product.

Canadian Lung Association CEO Terry Dean welcomed the new measures, calling the individual cigarette warnings “quite unique and novel”.

TPAPLR also attempts to standardise the sizes of package health warnings which must now take up at least 75% of cigarette packs’ display areas.

Annie Papageorgiou, executive director of the Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health, said it had been more than 10 years since the images were last changed.

Papageorgiou and Dean said they would like to see more regulations on vaping and a tobacco tax hike moving forward, as well as a cost recovery fee levied on tobacco companies.

“We still have too many smokers in Quebec – too many people who are dying from tobacco use. We’ll gladly take anything we can do to protect occasional smokers, new smokers and youth,” she said.

The government says these new regulations bring the country into line with the World Health Organization’s framework convention on tobacco control.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: veggie] * 1
    #28416851 - 08/01/23 10:15 PM (9 months, 12 days ago)

Stress-related mental disorders can raise the risk of heart attacks by 34%, stroke by 75%, and high blood pressure by more than 100%.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: veggie]
    #28417165 - 08/02/23 08:05 AM (9 months, 12 days ago)

now do alcohol


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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: veggie]
    #28417190 - 08/02/23 08:30 AM (9 months, 12 days ago)

I believe that tobacco use will be illegal most likely in the future.


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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: cycline]
    #28417251 - 08/02/23 09:17 AM (9 months, 12 days ago)

I can offend both sides of this discussion -- for or against.

A modest amount of real tobacco and good booze is medicinal and will probably make you live longer.

People should be free to craft and enjoy something that makes their lives better and gives them enjoyment.

That was in my imagination.

In real life, I used to come down with flu like symptoms on visiting my relatives every year, after getting hotboxed in the traditional, hillbilly way. I went bar hopping, in dives smelling of cheap beer vomit, and everyone wanted to fight.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: veggie]
    #28417480 - 08/02/23 01:12 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

I do wander if anyone ever has taken the advice of these health warnings. Surely everyone knows it's a killer that's like putting health warnings on guns or ammunition


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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: Kmacmo]
    #28417539 - 08/02/23 02:10 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

Quote:

Kmacmo said:
Surely everyone knows it's a killer that's like putting health warnings on guns or ammunition



Quote:

spirit_shadow said:
If you don't feel safe then I suggest making some friends that own guns.




:facepalm:

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28417619 - 08/02/23 03:56 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

They're treading a thin line here. I own the trademark for Fortune Cigarettes. :hehehe:

Of course mine all say "you're gonna die" so maybe I'm the one treading.
:maybe:


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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: the_chosen_one]
    #28417636 - 08/02/23 04:21 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

When these New World foods and medicines were freshly discovered, they were marketed to investors as wonder drugs, including the use of tobacco to cure cancers and even to help the reattachment of a severed thumb.

It is de-populationists who mostly hate the timeless curealls, who would just as soon post the death warning on a piece of organic chocolate or meat.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28417662 - 08/02/23 05:01 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

Tobacco is perfectly legal, causes heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and death. Everyone knows that but sure have a warning label.

We should use the same strategy with magic mushrooms. Make legal again, and add a warning label. Warning: Eating mushrooms can  cause relief from depression, ptsd, cluster headaches. Can also cause spiritual enlightenment, empathy, and connectiveness to all living things.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: veggie]
    #28417668 - 08/02/23 05:07 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

This is the same basic discussion as kratom vs kratom products, afaic.

That's not happening to tribesmen who use the tobacco as a sacrament, constantly.

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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28417684 - 08/02/23 05:25 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

Do they still have the pictures of diseased lungs on the packs and whatnot?

Those messages on the individual cigarettes are basically what I want to say every time I see a loved one spark up another cancer stick.

I think mass-produced cigarettes in particular are awful things, and not at all the same as what people were smoking before. Also, as a doctor pointed out to me during a physical when I was in my early 20's, smokers are dropping dead every day. So the tobacco industry has to work hard to rope in new young people if it wants to survive.

I like New Zealand's system of gradually raising the smoking age until there's a de facto ban on sales, but still letting people grow their own if they so choose.


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Re: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes [Re: B Traven]
    #28417692 - 08/02/23 05:38 PM (9 months, 11 days ago)

One of my aunts was short haired, wrinkled, skeletal, and slightly less nicotine stained than Char Man from Beetlejuice:

https://beetlejuice.fandom.com/wiki/Char_Man

She got pancreatic cancer and bled to death through her privates in bed.

All of my slutty cousins took up this gateway drug in the same year as her passing.

If you grow the seeds and dry leaves, yourself, it is not the same thing as what Big Tobacco is selling.

Nicotiana glauca contains anabasine and harmaline alkaloids. N. rustica can cause accidental overdoses. Nicotiana tabacum is reasonably safe with common sense.

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