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Global Issues: Warning Labels

Showing the truth, saving livesLarge, picture-based health warning labels on tobacco packages are an essential component of a national strategy to reduce tobacco use.Tobacco companies depend on package design to build brand recognition and promote sales. Packaging establishes brand imagery that is… Read More

Fact Sheets

Health Warning Labels: Essential Components of Effective Labels

Evidence on Pictorial Warnings

Warning Labels: Countering Industry Arguments

Pictorial Warning Labels by Country and Jurisdiction

Warning Labels: Larger Is More Effective

Reports and Studies

Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report

Press Releases

Court Ruling Against FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Warnings is Wrong on the Law and Must Be Appealed

Bolivia Approves Landmark Law to Reduce Tobacco Use and Provide Its People a Healthier Future

Kenya’s Supreme Court Rejects British American Tobacco Suit in Resounding Victory for Public Health

Canada Joins Growing Global Movement to Require Plain Packaging for Tobacco Products

Ethiopia’s Historic Public Health Law Will Save Lives and Stem a Growing Tobacco Epidemic in Africa

Federal Court Orders FDA to Quickly Implement Graphic Cigarette Warnings as Mandated by Law

Ukraine Reports Dramatic Drop in Cigarette Smoking, Further Action Needed to Continue Life-Saving Progress

India Dramatically Reduces Tobacco Use, Showing Strong Public Health Laws Save Lives

Philippines’ Dramatic Drop in Tobacco Use Shows Tobacco Control Efforts Are Working and Must Remain a Priority

FDA Is Right to Reject Swedish Match’s Flawed Application to Remove Health Warnings on Its Smokeless Tobacco Products

New Study on Effectiveness of Graphic Cigarette Warnings Should Prompt FDA to Quickly Require Them

India takes critical step to curb tobacco use by implementing 85 percent graphic health warnings on all tobacco products

Supreme Court Lets FDA Move Forward with Graphic Cigarette Warnings And Other Tobacco Regulations

Government's Decision Not to Appeal Cigarette Warning Ruling Is Disappointing; FDA Should Quickly Develop New Set of Graphic Warnings

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Graphic Cigarette Warnings and Other Key Provisions of New Tobacco Regulation Law

Latest Ruling Against Cigarette Warnings Is Not Surprising — Still Wrong on the Law and the Science

Ruling Against New Cigarette Warnings Is Wrong on the Law and the Science; Justice Department Should Appeal to Protect Public Health

Obama Administration Announces Bold National Plan to Curb Tobacco Use and Save Lives,Including Large, Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packs

Key Websites

International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project

World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2009

Health Canada

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada: Picture-Based Warning Labels

Tobacco Labelling Resouce Center