Health Canada has announced new warning labels to be printed directly on cigarettes in an effort to deter new smokers, encourage quitting and reduce tobacco-related deaths. It's a world first that ...

More Americans now smoke cannabis than cigarettes 01:33. Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes.

Canada has unveiled what individual labels on cigarettes will look like and when they will come into effect. It will be the first country in the world to have such labels.

Canada has required the printing of warning labels on cigarette packages since 1989. In 2000 the country also adopted picture warning requirements for tobacco product packages.

Advertising, promotion and sponsorship for tobacco are banned in Canada, with warnings on cigarette packs existing since 1972. This initiative isn’t the first time Canada has been the first to ...