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Regulations Amending the Tobacco Products Information Regulations
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The Tobacco Products Information Regulations (TPIR) establish the requirements for information that must be displayed on tobacco products that are for retail sale in Canada. They ensure that tobacco products display health warning messages, health information messages and information about their toxic emissions or constituents in a way that is easily legible and, where specified, in colour. The proposed Regulations Amending the Tobacco Products Information Regulations serve two main purposes: to respond to a review of the TPIR by Parliament's Standing Joint Committee on the Scrutiny of Regulations (SJCSR) and to remove the obligation to list numerical values for toxic emissions.
The SJCSR identified problems in the TPIR with respect to redundant language, clarity and consistency and to errors in terminology. The numerical values for toxic emissions are being removed in response both to research conducted for Health Canada that indicates that they are not clearly understood by smokers and to a recommendation from the World Health Organization that numerical values not be displayed.
Public Consultations
Prepublication in Canada Gazette, Part I
The proposed 
Regulations Amending the Tobacco Products Information Regulations and the associated Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS) were prepublished in the Canada Gazette, Part I on May 31, 2008.
How to Get Involved
This consultation is open for comment starting May 31st, 2008 until August 14, 2008. Once you select the link for the consultation document, you will be able to read through the background and considerations, and submit your comments via email, by fax or in writing to:
Regulations Division, Tobacco Control Programme
Office of Regulations and Compliance
Health Canada
123 Slater Street
A.L. 3507C1
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9
Phone: 1-(866)-318-1116
Fax: (613) 941-1551
Interested parties may submit comments for consideration by Health Canada until August 14, 2008.
