Cigarette packs and ads to include graphic warnings starting next year, FDA says

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The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule that requires tobacco companies to place new graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule Tuesday that requires tobacco companies to place new graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements.

Beginning on June 18, 2021, the new cigarette health warnings will be required on cigarette packages and in advertisements, occupying the top 50% of the area on the front and back panels of packages and at least 20% of the area at the top of cigarette ads, according to the FDA.

"We support the goal of reinforcing and sustaining the near universal public awareness of the dangers of smoking, but attempting to shock cigarette smokers away from making an informed choice through the use of grotesque pictorial warnings is poor public health policy as well as an unconstitutional violation of free speech," Kaelan Hollon, a spokesperson for Reynolds American Inc., said in the emailed statement. Reynolds American is the parent company of R.J.

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Cigarette packages in the Philippines has graphic health warnings.

In France it says 'Smoking causes impotence' on every pack of cigarettes. Not many men smoking cigarettes in France these days.

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