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This rule will require color graphics depicting the negative health consequences of smoking to accompany textual warning statements on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements. As directed by Congress in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, the rule will require these new cigarette health warnings to occupy the top 50 percent of the area of the front and rear panels of cigarette packages and at least 20 percent of the area of cigarette advertisements. The original rule FDA issued in 2011 was vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in August 2012 (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. United States Food & Drug Admin., 696 F.3d 1205 D.C. Cir. 2012).