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The Guardian - US
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Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa

‘Poison in every puff’: Canada puts health warnings on individual cigarettes

The measure is an effort to make it ‘virtually impossible to avoid health warnings altogether’.
The measure is an effort to make it ‘virtually impossible to avoid health warnings altogether’. Photograph: canada.ca

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.

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