Last updated: February 26, 2024

Warnings/Messages Content

Does the content of the warnings/messages address:
Health impacts
Yes
Advice on cessation (e.g., the benefits of cessation or steps to take to stop smoking)
Yes
Addictive nature of tobacco
No
Adverse economic and social outcomes
No
Impact of tobacco use on friends and family
Yes
Quitline phone number and/or website
No
Description of current required warnings/messages:

The following text must be displayed on tobacco product packaging (excluding cigarettes sold in duty-free stores and cigars, cigarillos and little cigars), along with the associated picture:

  • Front: Arrêtez De Fumer Pour Améliorer Votre Santé
    Back: Stop Smoking to Improve Your Health
  • Front: Fumer Provoque De Fausses Couches
    Back: Smoking Causes Miscarriage
  • Front: Fumer Provoque Le Cancer Du Poumon
    Back: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer
  • Front: Fumer Entraîne L’impuissance Seuelle Et L’infertilité
    Back: Smoking Makes You Impotent and Infertile
  • Front: L’usage du Tabac Provoque Des Maladies Cardiovasculaire
    Back: Smoking Causes Heart Diseases
  • Front: Fumer Entraîne à La Gangrène Et L’amputation
    Back: Smoking Leads to Gangrene and Amputation
  • Front: La Fumée du Tabac Contient Plus De 7,000 Substances Toxiques
    Back: Cigarette Contains Many Toxic Substances
  • Front: Fumer Provoque Un Vieillissement Prématuré
    Back: Smoking Causes Premature Ageing

Text in English and French on lateral sides:

Smoking kills.

La cigarette tue

The following text must be displayed on packaging for cigarettes to be sold at duty-free shops:

  • Front: La cigarette est une drogue qui crée une forte dépendance
    Back: Cigarette is a highly addictive drug
  • Front: L’usage du tabac provoque l’impuissance sexuelle
    Back:
    Tobacco use makes you impotent
  • Front: La fumée du tabac nuit à la santé de l’enfant  
    Back:
    Tobacco smoke harms the health of children
  • Front: Fumer provoque l’attaque cérébrale
    Back:
    Smoking causes strokes
  • Front: Fumer cause le cancer de la bouche
    Back: Smoking causes mouth cancer
  • Front: Fumer provoque le cancer du poumon
    Back:
    Smoking causes lung cancer
  • Front: Fumer provoque les maladies du cœur
    Back:
    Smoking causes heart diseases;
  • Front: Fumer cause une mort lente et douloureuse.
    Back: Smoking causes a slow and painful death.

Text in English and French on lateral sides:

Smoking kills.

La cigarette tue

The following text must be displayed on packaging for cigars, cigarillos and little cigars:

Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, bronchitis and early death

Fumer provoque le cancer, les maladies du coeur, la bronchite et la mort prematurée