Feds can’t force tobacco companies to put negative images on cigarettes

A federal district judge said  the Food and Drug Administration cannot make tobacco companies put images of dead bodies and blackened lungs on their cigarette packages.

The companies claimed that the requirement was forced speech and unconstitutional. -db

From the Courthouse News Service, November 9, 2011, by Ryan Abbott.

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  • And they shouldn’t be able to force them. I’m not a smoker, but come on, that IS unconstitutional. How can you force someone to kill their own product with disgusting imagery like that?

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