This USA Today report announces the federal government’s request for a rehearing of the Tobacco Industry challenge to the FDA requirement for graphic health warnings on cigarette packages, originally slated to go into effect this past September. The TI argues that the requirement is a first amendment violation of their freedom of speech, while the government contends that smoking can disfigure and kill, and that such powerful anti-smoking messaging will be highly effective in encouraging those who don’t smoke to not start, and those who do smoke to quit. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.

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