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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In a story published Apr. 12, 2024, about an anesthesiologist charged with tampering with bags of intravenous fluids and causing cardiac emergencies, The Associated Press erroneously spelled the first surname of defendant Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. It is Rivera, not Riviera.
