The tobacco industry is chafing over the Food and Drug Administration’s mandate for graphic labels on cigarette packages, showing rotting teeth, gums, blackened lungs and the like.
The industry is suing in federal court with the argument that the government is forcing them to present the government’s own anti-smoking message, a violation of the First Amendment. The problem with the industry’s stand is that they already lost that argument in federal court. -db
From a commentary for Reuters, September 12, 2011, by Alison Frankel.