Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario, ran one of the only real-world experiments of cancer warning labels on alcohol in Yukon in 2017. She's pictured in Ottawa in October 2022.

Warning labels are the type of hasty, we-need-to-feel-like-we’re-doing-something solution to a complicated problem – one that, at best, will have no effect, and at worst, make things worse.

Health Canada's new front-of-package nutrition warning labels are beginning to appear on store shelves six months ahead of the food industry's deadline.First announced in 2022, the black-and-white ...

In a bold move aimed at addressing youth mental health, New York lawmakers have passed a bill requiring warning labels on social media platforms. These labels — modelled after those on cigarette ...

The final regulations are expected to be published early next year. Canada was the first country to introduce graphic warning labels on cigarette packages in 2001.

Re: Booze and our brains, Dec. 31 The article mentions that in the U.S., groups are pushing to have cancer-warning labels pasted on beer, wine and liquor products.

Ottawa Public Health is urging the placement of graphic warning labels on cannabis packages sold in Canada, but while experts say they've been effective in reducing cigarette smoking, it's unclear ...

But Jeff Guignard, executive director with the Alliance of Beverage Licensees in B.C., says labels are "irritating for consumers" and they don't work, noting that the tobacco industry still makes ...