Because They Still Don’t Know This
There have been “smoking causes cancer” or similar warnings on cigarette packs for years, but in Canada alone, 45,000 people per year still die from smoking. Thus, Canada is considering requiring tobacco companies to print a warning on every individual cigarette, not just the packages. That’s the “logical next step,” says senior policy analyst Rob Cunningham of the Canadian Cancer Society. “It’s an incredibly cost effective way to reach every smoker every day with the health message.” (RC/CTV) ...The irony: the ink used to print the warnings cause cancer.Author’s Note: For a follow-up on this story see “Gone in a Puff of Smoke” in Volume 28.
Original Publication Date: 04 November 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.
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