Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Cigarette warning labels

  • The warnings were to cover the entire top half of cigarette packs, front and back which cleared the way for the more graphic warning labels and other marketing restrictions.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • a smoker are some of the images that accompany the bold new cigarette labels the FDA requires to cover half a pack of cigarettes, front and back. The written warnings include: Smoking Can Kill You and Cigarettes Cause Cancer.
  • (NPR News)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The highly debated graphic cigarette warning labels are set to take center stage again today as the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) fight to keep the nine warnings alive heads to the U.S.
  • (CSNews Online)
  • WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Advertising groups say allowing the governments imposition of graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging would be a dangerous precedent that would affect all industries.
  • (Legal News Line)
  • The U.S. Justice Department is hopeful a federal appeals court in Washington will strike down the injunction blocking the enforcement of new rules requiring cigarette packages to carry graphic warning labels. A three-judge panel of the U.
  • (The BLT: Blog of Legal Times)
  • Altria, the parent company of top U.S. cigarette maker Philip Morris USA, is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
  • (Lynchburg News and Advance)
  • At stake is a 2009 law that authorizes the federal government to place graphic warning labels on cigarette packs in order to discourage people from smoking. The D.C.
  • (TPMDC (blog))
  • For the text of this article, see DOJ Urges D.C. Circuit to Support Cigarette Graphic Warning Labels, from The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. A browser or device that allows javascript is required to view this content.
  • (Law.com)
  • Maybe thats also why my initial reaction to the 2009 federal act that requires graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes was favorable. After all, cigarettes kill and the government has an interest in reducing such carnage. And smoking is no longer cool.
  • (Kankakee Daily Journal)

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