06 Jun 2023 --- Canada will require health warnings on tobacco use to be printed on individual cigarettes from August this year, becoming the first country to target smoking reduction through advertisements on cigarette filters. Retailers will carry tobacco product packages that feature the new health-related messages by the end of April 2024. King-size cigarettes will be the first to feature individual health warnings and will be sold by retailers by July 2024, followed by regular-size cigarettes and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes by the end of April 2025. Labeling the tipping paper of individual cigarettes, little cigars, tubes and other tobacco products will make it virtually impossible to avoid health warnings, stresses the government.
