The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new warnings to appear on cigarette packages and advertisements, and has released the text and images of the new warnings on its website.The words are blunt and the images are intense. The pictures include a cancer patient, a baby with smoke being blown on its face and the gray feet of a corpse. According to the FDA, The Tobacco Control Act requires that the warnings appear “on the upper portion of the front and rear panels of each cigarette package and comprise at least the top 50 percent of these panels.” On advertisements, the warnings will take up at least 20% of the space. For ads smaller than 12 square inches, there are special provisions.
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