NEW FDA LABELS RESTRICT FREEDOM OF SPEECH CLAIM US TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS
July 1st, 2011 BY MJ DESCHAMPS AMERICAN tobacco companies are angered they will have to plaster 50% of their cigarette packaging with new US government-mandated graphic labels, calling the order a restriction on free speech. And they are pushing ahead with legal action. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released nine gruesome warnings for inclusion on US-sold cigarettes packs and cigarette advertising from September 2012. The images include smoke-stained teeth, open lip sores and a tracheotomy Back in 2009, the US's R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company joined other ...
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