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Feds Abandon Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels [Updated] FDA to research a new approach

The Food and Drug Administration is backing down from its controversial cigarette warning labels that landed it in court on First Amendment grounds, according to an Associated Press report.  Instead of…

March 20, 2013, 12:33 PM EDT

Draftfcb Lands 2 FDA Assignments Part of new anti-smoking initiative

The New York office of Draftfcb has won two Food and Drug Administration assignments that are part of the FDA’s new initiative to keep teens from trying tobacco products and…

January 15, 2013, 10:00 AM EST

FDA Picks 6 Agencies to Handle Anti-Tobacco Ads Will spend as much as $390 million over 5 years

The FDA has picked six agencies to work on a new anti-smoking initiative, which together have a spend ceiling of $390 million over the next five years. Ending a bidding process…

September 27, 2012, 2:49 PM EDT

Feds Strike Out on Cigarette Warning Labels Court of Appeals rules that 'mini billboards' violate free speech; Supreme Court could be next

The federal government's proposal to force tobacco manufacturers to place 36 graphic cigarette warning labels on the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packages was struck…

August 24, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT

Court Upholds Cigarette Warning Label Statute New tobacco law likely headed to Supreme Court

The statute that led the federal government to propose new graphic cigarette warning labels is probably headed for the Supreme Court. In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of…

March 20, 2012, 9:51 AM EDT

FDA's New Cigarette Warning Labels Ruled Unconstitutional Labeling went beyond factual and neutral warnings

The federal government is going to have to find another way to scare smokers. A federal district court judge yesterday ruled unconstitutional the 36 graphic cigarette warning labels that manufacturers would…

March 1, 2012, 10:16 AM EST

Advertising's Shock Troops For consumers, it’s a not-so-fine line between love and disgust

Legal disputes over advertising seldom get much public attention, but a recent decision out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was an exception: It made headlines. In…

February 20, 2012, 11:27 PM EST

Tobacco Companies Win Major Victory Over FDA Federal judge blocks new graphic warning labels

Tobacco companies scored a major victory in court Monday, when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Food and Drug Administration from requiring graphic new warnings on all…

November 7, 2011, 6:57 PM EST

Big Tobacco Gets Top First Amendment Lawyer for New Suit 'Adweek' talks to Floyd Abrams about why he's taken the case

Tobacco companies are pulling out the big guns in their quest to stop the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new graphic warnings for cigarette packaging. On Tuesday, a group of…

August 18, 2011, 6:41 AM EDT

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