Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations (SOR/2019-107)

Marginal note:Equal use

119 Every manufacturer must, to the extent possible, use each health warning set out in each applicable rotation of health warnings in the source document in respect of an equal number of each size of each brand name of cigarettes, little cigars and tubes that they package in a year.

Marginal note:Placement — display area

• 120 (1) A health warning that is displayed on a cigarette, little cigar or tube must be displayed on a display area that consists of the surface of the tobacco product’s tipping paper.

• Marginal note:Exception — cigarette without tipping paper

  (2) However, in the case of a cigarette that does not have tipping paper, the health warning must be displayed on a display area that consists of the surface of the paper that covers the rolled tobacco.

• Marginal note:Display area — length

  (3) The display area must be at least 24 mm in length,

  • (a) measured, in the case of a cigarette, little cigar or tube, from the end of the cigarette, little cigar or tube that is not designed to be lit; or

  • (b) measured, in the case of a cigarette referred to in subsection (2), from one of the ends of the cigarette.

• Marginal note:Space occupied

  (4) The health warning and any attribution of the health warning must occupy the entire length of the display area and at least 80% of the display area around the circumference of the cigarette, little cigar or tube.

Marginal note:Manner of display — official languages

• 121 (1) The health warning must be displayed on cigarettes, little cigars or tubes in both official languages in such a manner that

  • (a) the English and French versions each occupy at most 40% of the display area; and

  • (b) one version is below the other.

• Marginal note:Alignment

  (2) The health warning must be centered horizontally along the length of the display area of the cigarette, little cigar or tube.

• Marginal note:Text

  (3) The text of the health warning must be printed on two white backgrounds, with the English version on one and the French version on the other.

• Marginal note:Format

  (4) The health warning must be displayed on the cigarette, little cigar or tube in “Landscape” format.

• Marginal note:Format — length of tipping paper

  (5) However, if the tipping paper of the cigarette, little cigar or tube is 30 mm or more in length, the health warning must be displayed in “Elongated Landscape” format.

Marginal note:Subsection 5.3(3) of the Act

122 For the purposes of subsection 5.3(3) of the Act, all colouring agents used to display a health warning or an attribution on a cigarette, little cigar or tube are prescribed additives.

Marginal note:Visibility

• 123 (1) The entire text of each of the English and French versions of a health warning must be visible under normal conditions of use of a cigarette, little cigar or tube without turning the tobacco product.

• Marginal note:Alphanumeric code

  (2) The health warning and any attribution of the health warning must be positioned in such a manner that they do not obscure or conceal the alphanumeric code referred to in subsection 63(1), if any.