US to revise cigarette warning labels after abandoning legal battle with tobacco companies

(AP) The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.
... Floyd Abrams, a noted First Amendment lawyer who represented Lorillard Tobacco Co. in the challenge said he wasn't surprised by the Justice Department's decision not to appeal. "The graphic warnings imposed by the FDA were constitutionally indefensible," he wrote in an email. Continued