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Beyond Local: New graphic health warnings on cigarette packs aim to help smokers kick the habit

A bulging lump on someone's tongue. A big toe that has turned greenish-black from gangrene. A smoker's infant in hospital, connected to a breathing tube. These are some of the 14 new graphics and photos now starting to appear on cigarette packages to warn about smoking-related harms. They highlight tongue, stomach and neck cancer as well as gangrene for the first time since Canada led the world in adopting the hard-hitting quit-smoking approach in 2001. Those early images were updated in 2012 with grim patient photos. Plain packaging and requirements for brand names to be written in a standard white font came into effect in 2020. The latest set of photo warnings also build on various other h... [Read more]

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