The U.S. government is abandoning its effort to require graphic labels on cigarette packages, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter obtained by the Associated Press.
The Food and Drug Administration has been in a legal battle to require that cigarette packages feature morbid warning labels, including a dead body and a smoking man breathing through a tracheostomy. The warnings were supposed to cover the entire top half of cigarette packs and include the phone number for a stop-smoking hotline.
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