Thursday, 11 November 2010

Graphic Warnings for Cigarette Packs,Ads

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FDA Proposes Graphic Warnings For Cigarette Packs, Ads

Proposed warnings for cigarette packages

Today, the agency unveiled a proposal that would add large, dramatic warnings to cigarette packages and advertisements in a move to discourage people from smoking.

The Tobacco Control Act requires the FDA to come up with regulations for tougher labeling of cigarettes. Now you can see the agencies' ideas and comment on them through early January. Final regulations are due next June. Tobacco companies will have until September, 2012, to make the changes.

Under the law, these warnings will have to appear on both the front and back of cigarette packs, taking up half the real estate on each side of the label.

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