{"id":2968,"date":"2019-05-16T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:31:47","slug":"canadas-plain-packaging-rules-for-tobacco-products-the-toughest-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2968","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Plain-Packaging Rules for Tobacco Products the Toughest in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY:\u00a0<a class=\"c-byline c-byline--link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/authors\/carly-weeks\/\">CARLY WEEKS<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"c-beat\">HEALTH REPORTER<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-article-meta__timestamps\">PUBLISHED: MAY 1, 2019<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Tobacco products in Canada must be sold in packages that are brown, devoid of all colours and logos and feature large, graphic health warnings, according to new federal rules that health experts say are the toughest in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">The plain-packaging regulations, which were announced Wednesday and will come into force at retail stores next February, are a key pillar in the federal government\u2019s strategy to reduce tobacco use among Canadians to less than 5 per cent of the population by 2035.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-canadas-plain-packaging-rules-for-tobacco-products-the-toughest-in\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY:\u00a0CARLY WEEKS\u00a0HEALTH REPORTER PUBLISHED: MAY 1, 2019 Tobacco products in Canada must be sold in packages that are brown, devoid of all colours and logos and feature large, graphic health warnings, according to new federal rules that health experts say are the toughest in the world. The plain-packaging regulations, which were announced Wednesday and will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}