FILE - This file combination photo made from file images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows two of nine cigarette warning labels from the FDA. On Tuesday, March 19, 2013, the U.S. government said it won’t appeal a court decision blocking it from requiring tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Food and Drug Administration will go back to the drawing board and propose new labels. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration, File)
News Summary: US to revise cigarette warnings
Published: 08:14:04 PM, Tue 19 March 2013 UTC
UP IN SMOKE: The government is abandoning a legal battle to have cigarette packs carry large, often macabre warnings depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.
BUTTING IN: Some of the nation's largest tobacco companies sued to block it part of a 2009 law that, for the first time, gave the federal government authority to regulate tobacco. The companies argued the proposed warnings amounted to anti-smoking advocacy.
FIRED UP: The 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.
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