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SECTION 399
Cigarette package labeling
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 26
§ 399. Cigarette package labeling. 1. On each package of cigarettes
sold or delivered by a manufacturer or distributor within this state
after June first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, there shall be printed
thereon or attached thereto a warning of the consequences of excessive
smoking. Such warning shall be in letters not less than eight point type
and in a color in contrast with the package containing the cigarettes,
and shall contain the following statement:

WARNING

"Excessive use is dangerous to health"

2. Any person, firm, corporation or association or its officers or
agents who or which violate any of the provisions of this section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.