No, it doesn't. The govt. exempted them from FDA control and requirements back when the FDA was founded before WW I. That is because they loved the tax money they generated.
They fall through the cracks now between the authority of various agencies, so no one has the power to require content labeling.
Besides, if you are so dumb you don't know they will kill ya, then you are too dumb to read the package.
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Could be because they claim there is 4.000 chemicals in cigarettes......... a tad hard to put on a package, or could it be .... if they did list the poisons, they would have to admit to a lot fewer. ?
It's the law. I read an article on this many years ago. By law tobacco companies are required to give a list of additives to the government once a year. They don't have to say which additives are in which cigarettes or what quantities just a list of all the additives they use. Another federal law requires the bureacrat/agency/department that collects this (I forget who) to put those lists under lock and key. Releasing that info is punishable by federal law.
The number of additives that all cigarette manufacturers use is something in the neighborhood of 800+. They include such things as acetone, saltpeter (one of the ones that keep cigs burning), ketones, menthols, sugars. Canada required American companies to disclose what additives were in what cigs in order to import them so, rather than reveal their proprietary recipes, they simply removed the chemicals for exports to Canada.
Nice little scam, eh? It has to be the biggest fraud and coverup the U.S. government has ever perpetrated. The tobacco lobby is king.