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Canada puts cancer warnings directly on cigarettes (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

Wow is this new over there? Here in Australia we have strongly worded warnings about cancer and death along with photographs of fucked up looking feet from associated illnesses and people dying in hospital beds with breathing masks and tubes everywhere and fucked up looking lungs from autopsies of smokers.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Those sorts of warnings / graphic images are already present on the cigarette packaging in Canada. What's new is that now the warnings will also be printed directly on each individual cigarette!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    And every smoker already knows that cigarettes have lots of negative health effects but still smoke anyways because they like it and are willing to gamble. So I wonder what's the point in this?

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