# Do the new tobacco warnings violate 1st Amendment rights?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-new-tobacco-warnings-violate-1st-amendment-rights/593003>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-new-tobacco-warnings-violate-1st-amendment-rights/593003/70 "2011-08-18T15:25:35Z")

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Have it your way: this is a warning for ignoring my instructions. I haven’t participated in this thread as a poster, so any claims I made about the posts were made only in the context of moderating them. The topic of this thread is the proposed cigarette warning labels, not my reading comprehension.

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