AHA criticizes court decision on graphic tobacco labels
A U.S. Appeals Court threw out “one of the best tools we have” to combat smoking when it struck down FDA requirements for large graphic warning labels with on cigarette packages, according to American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown.
In a 2-1 decision, the court said federal regulators did not meet constitutional criteria for justifying the labeling rules. The labels would have contained images showing diseased lungs and a man blowing smoke out of a hole in his neck, among others.