1. In your view, are the tobacco companies’ speech rights violated by the government’s warning requirements? Explain.
2. Should the government require graphic smoking warnings? Explain.
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued rules requiring, among other things, graphic antismoking warnings covering the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs. The warnings, in color, included, for example, images of a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a tracheotomy hole in his throat and a cloud of cigarette smoke surrounding a mother kissing her baby.