OTTAWA - Smokers who get their fix from Canadian tobacco retailers can
no longer avoid Ottawa's latest in-your-face effort to convince them to
quit.

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says as of today, packages
of cigarettes and little cigars sold in Canada must carry large,
dramatic, new anti-smoking images and messages.

The new
labelling, which covers 75 per cent of cigarette packages, includes
graphic pictures of a cancer-infected mouth and of an emaciated,
cancer-stricken Barb Tarbox.

Tarbox was an anti-smoking activist
before dying of lung cancer at the age of 42, and her story - among
others - is featured in the new packaging.

Statistics Canada says
that in 2011, 1 in 5 Canadians aged 12 and older - nearly 5.8 million
people - smoked on an occasional or a daily basis, down from 25.9 per
cent in 2001.

A Canada-wide "quitline" and website address also
figure prominently on the new packs, which Aglukkaq says are part of an
ongoing federal effort to inform Canadians, particularly young people,
about the perils of tobacco use.
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who get their fix from Canadian tobacco retailers can no longer avoid
Ottawa' s latest in-your-face effort to convince them to quit.




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