Cigarette Packets to Get Grim Makeover

Published On: November 12th, 2010

A new FDA order for graphic health warnings to appear on packets of cigarettes has Big Tobacco riled up. But as WSJ’s Neil Hickey reports, smokers themselves don’t seem all that bothered.

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