Since health warning labels first appeared in the U.S. in the 1960s, tobacco consumption has dropped by a remarkable 73% —from 42.6% in 1965 to 11.6% in 2022.

In 1966, the first warning label appeared on the side of cigarette packs in the United States. Stating “Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health,” it was also the first such ...

To learn how effective cigarette warning labels have been in helping to reduce smoking, and what measures are likely needed to curb the epidemic of youth vaping, Knowable Magazine spoke with ...

However, the history of tobacco policy suggests the need for caution. Indeed, when Congress decided to first label cigarette packages in 1965, it was seen as a triumph for public health.

The tobacco industry lost their fight against graphic and provocative warning labels on cigarette packaging following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruling allows U.S. government ...

Tobacco warnings on cigarette packages are already hard to miss, but soon they’ll be impossible to ignore. Among the nine new cigarette warning labels chosen by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

MID-CITY — Purchase a pack of cigarettes and get a blackened lung, rotten teeth or an oxygen mask — these are just a few of nine graphic warning labels the FDA unveiled recently in what was ...

More than 120 countries worldwide now use larger, graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging, and studies indicate these image-based warnings are more effective than text alone in raising ...

More than 100 countries globally have adopted graphic cigarette warning labels. But it’s unclear when the new labels may appear in the U.S.

Cigarette packages currently come with a tidy black-bordered warning label, reminding users that smoking causes lung cancer, birth defects and heart disease. Dutiful, yes, and easily disregarded ...

A lit cigarette burns on a package of cigarettes revealing the mandatory warning labels, in the 1960s.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In Jan., the now-former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called ...

British American Tobacco (BTI) lost an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the FDA's use of graphic warning labels on cigarettes. Read more here.