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		bdavisx on June 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smo... Seems to me like that's a Freedom of Speech issue.

chc on June 16, 2017 | [–]

Case law has established that commercial speech is not the same as other speech and is much more prone to restrictions.

MBCook on June 16, 2017 | [–]

Yep. Short of making tobacco illegal or declaring it to be in a drug class that can't advertise to the public I'm not such there is anything that can be done except consent decrees.

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