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Getting graphic labels on cigarette packages continues to be an uphill battle for the Obama administration, as a skeptical judge sided with cigarette makers who say "they can't be forced to spread the government's anti-smoking advocacy with 'massive shocking, gruesome warnings' on products they legally sell," reports The Associated Press.
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Judge continues to block graphic images on cigarette packs
Getting graphic labels on cigarette packages continues to be an uphill battle for the Obama administration, as a skeptical judge sided with cigarette makers who say "they can't be forced to spread the government's anti-smoking advocacy with 'massive shocking, gruesome warnings' on products they legally sell," reports The Associated Press.U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of Washington, D.C., has already decided that the cigarette makers will probably succeed in their lawsuit, because he has ordered the government to not enforce the requirement that the labels appear on cigarette packages next year.
The labels, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, "included color images of a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a tracheotomy hole in his throat; a plume of cigarette smoke enveloping an infant receiving a mother's kiss; a pair of diseased lungs next to a pair of healthy lungs; a diseased mouth afflicted with what appears to be cancerous lesions; a man breathing into an oxygen mask," among others, AP reports.
Leon has indicated he thinks the labels go overboard in their efforts to convey the dangers of cigarettes. He has ruled they are too large; they were intended to cover the top half of packs. "It sounds like they are headed to a place," he said Wednesday, "where you have to watch a 10-minute video before you can even buy a pack of cigarettes." (Read more)
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Vapor produced by electronic cigarettes can contain a surprisingly high concentration of formaldehyde?a known carcinogen that can cause lung cancer through prolonged exposure?researchers reported Wednesday in a study published in the New England Journal...
- Cigarette Companies Balking At Justice Dept's Request For "confessional" Advertising That They Say Goes Too Far
Calling them "forced public confessions," America's largest tobacco companies are asking a federal judge to reject the government's proposed corrective statements for cigarette advertising. Fred Frommer reports for the Associated Press that the...
- Graphic Warning Labels Help Smokers Remember Tobacco Health Risks, Study Finds
Study participants looked at these two images while researchers assessed how effectively they were viewed. Graphic by Penn Medicine.Graphic warning labels on cigarette packages can help smokers remember the message and the health risks associated with...
- New Cigarette Warning Labels To Be In Use By Fall 2012
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