Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes. The move was first announced last year by Health Canada and is aimed at helping people ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials, saying the current labels are all but “invisible” because of how long they’ve been used, are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Rotting teeth. Diseased lungs. A corpse of a smoker. Nine new warning labels featuring graphic images that convey the dangers of smoking will be required by the Food and Drug ...

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing that cigarette labels include graphic images to warn smokers of the health risks, including illustrations of amputated toes and diseased lungs. The plan ...

Those and other blunt images are part of nine different warning labels that must cover the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packs sold in the United States starting in September 2012.

Nine new warning labels that feature graphic images that convey the dangers of smoking will be required by the Food and Drug Administration to be on U.S. cigarette packs by 2012. Other images include ...

The new labels offer the opportunity for a pack-a-day smoker to see graphic warnings on the dangers of cigarettes more than 7,000 times per year.The FDA estimates the new labels will reduce the number ...