Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. "Light" cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. “Light” cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The ...

This past June, the U.S. Senate empowered the FDA to oversee the marketing and packaging of tobacco products. Among the FDA’s first targets: controversial descriptors like “light,” “mild,” and “low ...

Words like “light” and “mild” can’t be used on cigarette packages, but colors can. In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the tobacco industry from using descriptors like “light,” “low ...

When it comes to new rules for marketing so-called light cigarettes, tobacco companies plan to honor the letter of the law — but to shade the truth, critics say. Come June, under the new federal ...

Their boxes carry brand names such as Sweet Dreams, with flavors such as chocolate, vanilla and "Twista Lime." But these products aren't jelly beans or breakfast cereals. They're cigarettes, and ...

Advertising for traditional cigarettes is strictly regulated: No cowboys looking cool, no cartoons and no bright colors that play up candy-flavored cigarettes that might appeal to kids. Yet these bans ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. "Light" cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. “Light” cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The U.S ...