Former Lancastrian

Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...ning-1.6484736

Will it be a bilingual warning? What size font and colour will the lettering be? Will it apply to cigarettes sold by First Nations manufacturers? Will they make the smoke an actual different colour so people can avoid second hand smoke or distinguish from those who are vaping?

dbd33

Surely everyone who's going to quit has quit. Labelling won't make a difference but a "born after" law, such as they have in NZ, might.

dbd33

This post has, btw, given me a craving for a Marlboro, Ideally, shared.

Gozit

The NZ method is a little too big brother for my liking...if people want to kill themselves with cancer sticks, so be it.
And it will just encourage the grey market. Circa marijuana before it was legalized.

Pulaski

In the US smoking is banned in almost all public indoor spaces and the number of cigarettes sold has shown a near linear decline over the past 40 years, falling by two thirds between 1980 and 2018, and this is despite the US population growing by 44% over the same time period. If that pattern continues, tobacco will cease to be smoked by around 2040. .... So in short, I am not sure why the government, any government facing this pattern of steady, long-term decline in smoking (in NZ the numbers have gone from 33% of the population smoking in 1983 to 17% by 2014, so a a similar near linear decline to the US, that would reach 0% around 2044 if the pattern continues), or anyone else, cares what a declining number of adults choose to poison themselves with in the privacy of their own home.

The one thing I do wonder, given the legalization of marijuana in most US states, and across the whole of Canada, is at that point the long-term decline in tobacco usage will start to drag down the consumption of marijuana? While tobacco and marijuana are different products, and there can be different motivations for "using" them, I imagine that at some point the decline in smoking tobacco will extend to a decline in smoking in general.

OrangeMango

I don't smoke, smoking laws are fine with me, so why bother?

I wonder if it would be better selling a pack of cigarettes for $30, and similar prices for Cannabis, made up mostly of taxes, than endless regulation regarding warning labels.

Hacking on a dart, - I've only heard that one in Canada. Don't know about other countries.

printer

Biggest problem for any government is the huge amount of tax they collect from smokers currently. Where is this money coming from if nobody is buying, or at least from legitimate sources anyway.

OrangeMango

Any government is very creative when it comes to raising taxes.

I am sure they will tax aviation more, and tell people how bad flying for the environment is, whilst India and China is building a massive amount of new coal fired power plants. Sadly people will believe it, - or at least 50,1%.