Each cigarette sold in Canada will have to come with an individual health warning that "cigarettes cause impotence" and cancer, and that there is "poison in every puff" under new rules that came into effect Tuesday.

Canada puts warning label on each cigarette, saying ‘cigarettes cause impotence’, ‘poison in every puff’

In 2020, a 16-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy named Rohan Godhania from Ealing, west London, tragically suffered irreversible brain damage and died. The tragic death happened after he consumed a protein shake, but at the time, the exact reason could not be diagnosed.

Explained | How protein shakes triggered a teen's death, now prompt calls for life-saving warnings

Canada has come out with a regulation that would soon require health warnings to be printed on individual cigarettes, making it the first country to implement such kind of initiative as it aims to reduce tobacco usage to less than 5 per cent by 2035.

Canada becomes first country to put health warnings on individual cigarettes

The Supreme Court stayed the Karnataka court`s order on Monday

'Health of a citizen has primacy': Supreme Court for larger tobacco health warnings in India

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