Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Are Constitutional, U.S. Court Rules
* Appeals court OKs FDA rule requiring graphic warnings * Decision conflicts with district court ruling * Cases could en...
* Appeals court OKs FDA rule requiring graphic warnings * Decision conflicts with district court ruling * Cases could en...
Reuters | Posted 05.06.2012
* Labels had required graphic images on ads, packages * Judge had found label requirement unconstitutional WASHINGTON, M...
AP | By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 04.30.2012
RICHMOND, Va. -- A judge on Wednesday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images o...
Edward Flattau | Posted 01.15.2012
In granting tobacco companies a delay in complying with a government order to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs, Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon sought mightily to make a case for industry. His problem -- industry doesn't have a case.
AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- A judge on Monday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing tobacco companies next year to put graphic images includin...
AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press)-- Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette lab...
Posted 08.29.2011
Bill Maher is back with another new rule, and this time it applies to cigarette warning labels. Specifically, Maher begs the question: who is protecti...
Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 08.21.2011
The idea behind the new cigarette warnings is that if people really knew what cigarettes can do to them, they would not smoke. Unfortunately, there is good reason to believe that these warnings will not have the desired effect.
Posted 08.21.2011
The FDA just released designs for new cigarette warning labels and they're pretty shocking. However, there were a lot of rejected concepts, some o...
Posted 08.21.2011
Today, the FDA released a new set of graphic cigarette labels depicting the health effects of smoking, including a diseased set of lungs and decaying ...
The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.20.2011
The Food and Drug Administration released nine new graphic warnings for cigarette packages today -- the first new labels in more than two decades. The...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The FDA proposed new, graphic warnings for cigarettes today, following a global trend of shocking imagery designed to dissuade smoking. About 20.6 per...
AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
RICHMOND, Va. — Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels...
Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012