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Health Canada should move quickly to put breast cancer warning on cigarette packages
Jump to full article: Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, 2009-04-24
Intro: Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PSC) today called for health warnings on cigarette packages that communicate the risk of breast cancer from exposure to tobacco smoke. The doctors' organization is calling for these reforms in light of the report of the Canadian Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke and Breast Cancer Risk, published yesterday by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit.
The Expert Panel concluded that both smoking and exposure to other people's tobacco smoke increase the risk of breast cancer, and noted that "effective messaging" to ensure that the public is fully informed of these risks would be desirable.
"The most effective way of providing this information to every smoker is to make sure it is printed on every brand of cigarettes," said Dr. Atul Kapur, PSC's president. Tobacco package warnings are highly effective because they are low-cost and high reach. Package warnings are delivered to smokers on virtually every occasion that the products is used.
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