RICHMOND: Several states and US territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the labels for the “lethal and addictive” products.

The 24 attorneys general filed a friend of the court brief on Friday in the US Court of Appeals in Washington in support of the Food and Drug Administration’s challenge of a lower court ruling in the case.