FDA abandons push for graphic warning labels on cigarette packs; will now push for image of "sewn-up corpse of a smoker" (Still predict cigarette cases will return to fashion)

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FDA Backing Off of Requiring Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes

By AP / Michael FelberbaumMarch 21, 2013

The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.

Instead, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will go back to the drawing board and create labels to replace those that included images of diseased lungs and the sewn-up corpse of a smoker, according to a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder obtained by The Associated Press. The government had until Monday to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision upholding a ruling that the requirement violated First Amendment free speech protections.

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