Of course, this one is my favorite!

I’m going to post all of the ads that the FDA has pro­posed for cig­a­rette pack­ag­ing.  The legal­ity of the ads have gone back and forth as men­tioned here.  All images are from FDA.gov

What do you think about this cig­a­rette pack­age warning?

(image from FDA.gov — link to the page here)

The FDA, which has author­ity to reg­u­late tobacco sales and adver­tis­ing, will require the use of  graphic (shock­ing?) images that have to occupy 50% of the cig­a­rette package.

The tobacco com­pa­nies won the first round in court, a fed­eral judge say­ing that the graphic images vio­lated the com­pa­nies right of free speech by forc­ing them to use graphic images to reduce sales of their own product.

From the arti­cle in TIME HEALTHLAND

Judge Stranch wrote, how­ever, that graphic warn­ings can also com­mu­ni­cate straight­for­ward fac­tual infor­ma­tion, just like tex­tual warn­ings. Fur­ther, Stranch noted, graphic warn­ing labels can reach a wider audi­ence — includ­ing youths and those who don’t have high enough read­ing lev­els to under­stand the text warn­ings — and can there­fore be more effec­tive than text-only labels. “A warn­ing that is not noticed, read, or under­stood by con­sumers does not serve its func­tion,” she wrote. “The new warn­ings ratio­nally address these prob­lems by being larger and includ­ing graphics.”

If you really wanna geek out on the sub­ject, go here for a wikipedia list­ing of cig­a­rette warn­ings listed coun­try by country.