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 warning ...

Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that alcoholic drinks should carry a warning about cancer risks on their label. Alcohol consumption increases the risk of at least seven types of ...

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 ...

Regulatory hurdles, industry objections, and legal fights have gone on for decades over traditional tobacco. What’s in store for the next generation of smoking? By Clare Watson / Knowable Magazine ...

New York is treating teen social media use more like a public health risk than a private pastime, ordering mental health ...

New York is moving from warnings about cigarettes to warnings about social feeds. Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a first-in ...

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. On ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 24, No. e1, The Pack and the Retail Environment (March 2015), pp. e72-e80 (9 pages) BackgroundPictorial health warnings are more effective than text warnings in enhancing ...

A new study is the first to provide real-world evidence of the effectiveness of smoking warning labels that include graphic photos of the damage caused by regular tobacco use. Researchers found that ...

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 Administration ...

Objectives To investigate the links between health warning labels (WLs) on cigarette packets and relapse among recently quit smokers. Design Prospective longitudinal cohort survey. Setting Australia, ...