Industry News: Tobacco Companies Lose Court Bid To Delay Tougher Warnings On Cigarette Packs

Tobacco companies must meet a December deadline ordering them to put larger and more graphic warnings on cigarette packages, a Quebec court ruled on Wednesday. The new warnings will increase the size of health alerts to about 50 per cent of the package, up from 30 per cent, and require grim colour photos of body parts diseased because of tobacco use.

The ruling by Justice Danielle Grenier of Quebec Superior Court was only confined to the delay request and did not address the tobacco firms' attack on the constitutionality of the law adopted by the House of Commons last June.

"At this point, that will remain without a response," she wrote of the part of the case which is expected to be heard early next year.

"At this point, what is known is that the regulations, while imperfect, were adopted in the interest of the citizens."

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