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tora
This one must be a reprint from an article in the Onion? Surely.
If not, it's another one of those "Oh, Canada". moments.
JeffLee
Do they put the same gruesome labels on marijuana, whose smoke delivers many of the same harmful and carcinogenic chemicals as tobacco? Of course not. This is just part of a culture war driven by smug hypocrisy.
The same Canadian authorities give free heroin to addicts at publicly funded sites it touts as "safe." Yeah, right. Gotta love "safe heroin." The narcotics situation in many parts of Canada are officially in crisis. This is new war on tobacco is a cynical distraction, as cigarette smoking has come down steeply in recent years while narcotics-related deaths continue to hit new records year after year.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I about having them play a little jingle that says, "I don't give a damn what a nuisance I am".
MarkX
Sometimes I just have to shake my head and ask what my country is doing. Are they trying to make themselves the laughing stock of the world? With so many bigger problems facing Canadians like affordable housing, the attack on our medical system, climate problems like wild fires, and they decide to put labels on individual cigarettes? Oh Canada!
justasking
I am all for it, because there is nothing worse than breathing in someone else's secondhand smoke. For Markx, yes, you are right the medical system, the cancer is the number one killer and usually but not always of course caused by cigarettes. Blessedly, since I have moved here the number of cigarette smoking has gone down and I am grateful for that not having to breathe in someone's smoke blowing into my face.
Granted the whacky tobaccy, I don't care for that smell either and that should have the same warnings and taxes put on it.
ian
Teach it in school?
Danielsan
Easy way around this one: buy tobacco in bulk and smoke it in a pipe. If you grow your own, then there will be no harmful additives or pesticides!