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The federal government's proposal to force tobacco manufacturers to place 36 graphic cigarette warning labels on the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packages was struck down by a federal appeals court Friday. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. upheld a lower court ruling that the federal government's warning labels violated the First Amendment, ordering the Food and Drug Administration to find another way to convince Americans to kick the habit.
The labels, proposed in November 2010, depict horrific images of cadavers and blackened lungs and were designed to scare people away from smoking.
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