Congress instructed the FDA to require graphic warnings on cigarettes as part of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act. The tobacco industry successfully fought the initial labels, forcing the FDA to try again.
unveiled new graphic health warnings for cigarette packs on Thursday, a decade after Congress instructed the agency to issue them and seven years after a court ruled that the images it initially chose violated the First Amendment.
As part of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, Congress mandated the FDA to issue graphic health warnings on cigarette packs "depicting the negative health consequences." The agency selected nine images in 2011, including one of a man smoking through a tracheotomy hole in his heart and one with a man on an autopsy table with chest staples.
However, a separate ruling upheld the FDA's authority to require graphic warning labels. The FDA in 2013 said it would go back and issue new regulations. But by 2016, it had not announced anything, so eight public health groups sued. U.S. cigarette warning labels were last updated in 1984. More than 120 countries display pictures on cigarette packs to show people the harmful health effects of smoking cigarettes. Studies suggest this makes people more aware of the risks and encourages smokers to quit.
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