History of warning labels

June 22, 2011 at 1:06AM

The United States first mandated the use of warning labels stating, "Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health," in 1965.

The current warning labels -- put on cigarette packs in the mid-1980s -- say more explicitly that smoking can cause lung cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. But the warnings contain no pictures and consist only of text in a small box.

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