Individual cigarettes in Canada will soon carry health warnings
NPR Online NewsAPR 2023
This news should be applauded. Deaths from smoking remain one of the leading preventable causes of illness and mortality in the UK. By helping millions of UK residents quit smoking, the British government can help people live healthier lives, lower the death rate for tobacco-related diseases, and reduce healthcare costs.
Grisly photos and heinous warnings printed on cigarette packets alone haven't deterred people with a high nicotine dependence from smoking. Being a smoker is a willful, personal decision, which is why the UK government — almost a decade behind achieving its target for England to be smoke-free by 2030 — is bound to fail in combating a killer addiction without more substantive action.