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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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether federally mandated warnings on cigarette packs that graphically illustrate the health risks of smoking violate the ...
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 ...
By David Ingram and Anna Yukhananov WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a law that requires tobacco companies to use graphic health warnings, such as of a man ...
Warning label on a cigarette box: "Smoking Kills". Warning label for a personal water craft. A warning label is a label attached to a product, or contained in a product's instruction manual, warning the user about risks associated with its use, and may include restrictions by the manufacturer or seller on certain uses. [1]