Breaking News English

Canada's government has stronger measures to people from smoking. From August the 1st, every individual cigarette in the country will have a warning label on it. Canada will be the first country to such messages. The warnings will messages like "Cigarettes cancer," "Tobacco smoke children" and "Poison in every puff." The government said: "This bold step will make health warning messages virtually unavoidable." A spokesperson at the Canadian Cancer Society the action taken by the government. He said: "Having a warning on every cigarette sold in Canada a world precedent-setting measure."

Canada announced its new anti-tobacco strategy on World No Tobacco Day. The government has other measures to encourage smokers to , or to people from taking up the habit. There will be 28 graphic pictures the damaging health consequences of smoking, as well as the harm cigarettes to the body's organs. These will over the next two years. In addition, all warning labels on cigarette packets will up a minimum of 75 per cent of the main display area of the pack. Health Canada said the bold steps would the likelihood of its message across. Smoking the leading cause of preventable disease and death in Canada.