The government says the measure could further cut the number of smokers, especially among the young.
Canada's government is proposing putting health warnings on individual cigarettes in what would be a world-first way of tackling the habit.
She said the key target were young people who often access cigarettes "in social situations sidestepping the information printed on a package".Why US lags behind on graphic cigarette warnings She added that photo warnings on cigarette packets - introduced in Canada in 2001 - were no longer as effective as the government had hoped."Canada will now have the strongest health warning regime for cigarettes in the world," the foundation's CEO, Doug Roth was quoted as saying by Canada's CBC public broadcaster.
In 2020, more than four million Canadians were daily or occasional smokers, according to Statistics Canada.
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