# Do the new tobacco warnings violate 1st Amendment rights? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-new-tobacco-warnings-violate-1st-amendment-rights/593003 "2011-08-17T06:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 43
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-new-tobacco-warnings-violate-1st-amendment-rights/593003/43 "2011-08-17T18:37:15Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Can the government, in an effort to fight childhood obesity, require that Paula Deen’s new book “Delicious Meals for Kids,” be sold only in a plain brown wrapper bearing the warning, “Eating These Recipies Risks Becoming This,” together with that same obese kid image? > [@FinnAgain](#): > > Can the government, in an effort to inform consumers of the danger of a product, require that Phillip Morris’ new flavor “Delicious Menthol Lights,” be sold only in packets that bear the warning, " SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy?" > > Gotchaya! round of Lawyerball in progress Does Lawyerball have innings? > [@Bricker](#): > > FinnAgain didn’t mean to say that we could, even though he did. What he intended to say was that we could regulate warning labels because we’ve been doing it forever. He did not intend to say that we can regulate labels solely because of the Commerce Clause. :rolleyes: Not only did I not just ‘intend’ to say that, and not only did I not just say it was due to the ICC despite your claim that I did, but I just pointed out that even in the post of mine which was aggressively cherrypicked for a misleading quote, I very clearly and unambiguously brought up the issue of half a century of precedent. What I “intended” to say also included numerous other facts, which were not only noticed at first by Notre before he somehow failed to notice them, but which he agreed and in some cases, cited to prove I was correct. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-new-tobacco-warnings-violate-1st-amendment-rights/593003)._