Supreme Court won't hear challenge to graphic cigarette warning labels
Source: AP
Updated 1:42 PM EST, November 25, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking. The high court declined to hear the case in a brief written order handed down Monday.
Tobacco company R.J. Reynolds appealed to the high court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the warnings do not violate the First Amendment.
They include pictures of smoke-damaged lungs, feet blackened by diminished blood flow and a picture of a woman with a large growth on her neck and the caption “WARNING: Smoking causes head and neck cancer.”
The company argued the final image, for example, was misleading because a patient would likely go to the doctor before a growth reached that size. The Food and Drug Administration countered that all the pictures reflect undisputed risks of smoking.
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Though if the truth be told obesity is a complex illness with a variety of causes like over consumption of calories and constrained activity leading to limited ability to burn those calories especially from refined sugar and substances like high fructose corn syrup.
Obesity is also characterized by genetic influences, disability and some medications can influence body mass and contribute to the disease.
Also as a rule "fat shaming" is a no go here at DU, FYI.
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