Last updated: May 20, 2025

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
Yes
Adverse economic and social outcomes
No
Impact of tobacco use on friends and family
Yes
Quitline phone number and/or website
Yes
Description of current required warnings/messages:

Smoked Tobacco Products

The following text appears in each of the three sets of 14 combined picture/text warnings. There is a different picture associated with the text in each set of warnings.
1.    Smoking causes 90% of lung cancer 
2.    Smoking causes cancer of the oral cavity and throat
3.    Smoking destroys the lungs
4.    Smoking is a cause of heart attacks
5.    Smoking is a cause of strokes and disability
6.    Smoking is a cause of atherosclerosis
7.    Smoking increases the risk of the loss of vision
8.    Smoking destroys the teeth and gums
9.    By smoking you may kill your unborn child
10.    Smoking harms your children, family and friends
11.    The children of smokers more often become smokers
12.    Quit smoking -you have someone to live for
13.    Smoking diminishes fertility
14.    Smoking increases the risk of impotence

General warning and informational message:
1.    Smoking kills – quit now! 
2.    Tobacco smoke contains more than 70 cancer-causing substances.

Smokeless Tobacco Products

This tobacco product harms your health and causes addiction