The warnings, required under a law passed last year, are an important step toward reducing cigarette-related illnesses, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at a news conference.
Cigarettes can’t be sold in the U.S. after Oct. 22, 2012, without the labels pairing images with text such as “Smoking can kill you.”
The proposed images include photos of dead bodies, rotting teeth, cancerous lungs and children exposed to second-hand smoke. The graphics would cover 50 percent of the front and back of cigarette packages and 20 percent of print ads, Hamburg said
Altria’s Philip Morris USA of Richmond, Virginia, the biggest U.S. cigarette maker, broke with rivals Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco Co. to back the law as a way to standardize manufacturing requirements and spur development of less-harmful tobacco products.
Reynolds and Lorillard are among tobacco companies seeking to overturn the 2009 law’s graphic warning-label requirements. Altria isn’t part of the lawsuit.
It’s unconstitutional for the government to “confiscate the top 50 percent of both sides of cigarette packaging and mandate shocking color graphics,” Reynolds and Lorillard said in September in a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.
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re: "standardizing...unconstitutional...mandate"
Governments have been raking in billions of dollars from cigarette taxes for decades. But that was then, this is now. The Brave New World fast materializing before our eyes is not about 'money' so much as it is about a global empire. What is 'money' if you already own the entire world? This reality was not lost on the late Peter Drucker, the so-called 'father of modern management', so-called that because he is the actual architect of the "global-management" system being used to create the 'global empire'. Drucker's premise was that the wealth of the future would not be measured by gold, silver, or especially paper fiat money, but by what he called "knowledge workers".
What is a 'knowledge worker? Well to put it into the simplest and most blunt terms, a 'knowledge worker' is a slave. A trained slave to be more precise. One who can multi-task, if you will. To micro-manage the earth so as to create and maintain a utopia for themselves, the self-proclaimed elite have envisioned the need for a rather large work force. This work force will essentially be the worker bees who will be used to keep things running smoothly.
There is actually another group known as "useless eaters", but that is another topic entirely.
Owning the entire planet at that point, precious metals, jewels etc. would have little value and wealth would then be determined by how many slaves are owned. Researching Peter Drucker and the term "knowledge worker" will prove these things true.
The building of Drucker's "global-management system" is very evident here. Firstly, trashing the constitution. It has absolutely no place in the coming global empire. Secondly, manufacturing must be "standardized" because this puts control in the hands of government and is essential for making each separate industry a part of the global system, and then of course, disallowing 'knowledge workers' i.e slaves to make their own decisions. Being the property of the cabalist-elite, they will be managed in such a way as to achieve the highest production and greatest efficiency. Smoking will not be permitted apparently, or 'happy meals' for that matter.
"Knowledge workers" will be maintained in 'sustainable communities' and given all the benefits of solar power and wind energy. Slave plantations in other words. Here is the real 'why' of all things green-agenda related.
This is the nutshell version of exactly what is happening in this world, and is an absolutely factual representation of the Drucker scheme. Believe it or not. By the way, Drucker was a Zionist Jew. That is just another fact. Connect the dots yourself [here and here].
Rev. 18:4
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Psalms 37:20 'But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away'