{"id":190112,"date":"2010-01-05T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/05\/tobacco-regulations-largely-upheld-by-court\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T03:15:00","slug":"tobacco-regulations-largely-upheld-by-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/05\/tobacco-regulations-largely-upheld-by-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco Regulations Largely Upheld By Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big tobacco had a minor win, the judge said that the FDA could not the use of color and graphics in their advertisements, which is pretty much in line with the law as I understand it for &#8220;corporate free speech,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6045SZ20100105\">allowed a ban on using merchandise and sponsorships to stand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The judge struck down some modest restrictions on color and graphics in tobacco and on labels that tobacco companies said violated their free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley approved bans on sponsorships of athletic, cultural and social events and the use of tobacco imagery on such things as caps and T-shirts, rejecting the companies&#8217; argument that the ban was too broad and failed to differentiate between adults and children.<\/p>\n<p>He also upheld a requirement that warning labels cover half of the front and back of the packaging of tobacco products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, their package will be dominated by warning labels, and they cannot sponsor events or hand out ball caps, but they can use pictures and color on the labels.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much a win for the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big tobacco had a minor win, the judge said that the FDA could not the use of color and graphics in their advertisements, which is pretty much in line with the law as I understand it for &#8220;corporate free speech,&#8221; but allowed a ban on using merchandise and sponsorships to stand: The judge struck down &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}