Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packages Decrease UseTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 986, Segment 3
Jan 16, 2019 • 16m
Guest: Jeff Niederdeppe, Professor of Communications, Cornell University The federal Food Drug Administration is a Catch-22. In 2009Congress ordered the FDA to require new, more powerful health warning labels on cigarette packages. But the FDA got caught in a cross fire of conflicting federal court orders. One way out of the legal mess was to prove that graphic, disturbing images of tobacco-related disease on the packages would significantly reduce smoking.