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A Surgeon General's warning on a cigarette pack, 2012 In addition to requiring warning labels on cigarette packages, courts have ordered warning statements such as this one on the front window of a convenience store in the U.S. [84] In 1966, the United States became the first nation in the world to require a health warning on cigarette packages.
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Thursday said a U.S. government requirement that cigarette packs and advertisements contain graphic warnings about the dangers of smoking ...
A federal requirement that cigarette packs and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking — including pictures of smoke-damaged lungs and feet blackened by ...
U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, on Monday sided with R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies in finding the FDA went beyond its authority by requiring packaging and ...
Warning on a packet of cigarettes. The history of warning labels in the United States began in 1938 when the United States Congress passed a law mandating that food products have a list of ingredients on the label. [1] In 1966, the Federal government mandated that cigarette packs have a warning on them from the surgeon general. In 1973 ...
S. 559 was introduced in the Senate on January 15, 1965, by Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA), which required cigarette packages to bear the statement: "Warning: Continual Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health." The bill also removed a threat to tobacco interests by prohibiting any other health warning by federal, state, or local ...
The labels would take up half of the front of cigarette packages and include text warnings, such as "Smoking causes head and neck cancer." US makes new push for graphic warning labels on ...
Plain tobacco packaging, also known as generic, neutral, standardised or homogeneous packaging, is packaging of tobacco products, typically cigarettes, without any branding (colours, imagery, corporate logos and trademarks), including only the brand name in a mandated size, font and place on the pack, in addition to the health warnings and any ...