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In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment does not protect commercial advertising.⁶⁶ But what happens when political speech is part of a commercial advertisement? Faced with such instances in the 1970s, the Supreme Court has accorded some degree of First Amendment protection to commercial speech. For example, it struck down state laws that prevented lawyers from advertising and that banned advertising for abortion services.⁶⁷ It also struck down a federal law that prohibited the mailing of unsolicited advertisements for contraceptives.⁶⁸ Nonetheless, the Court has made it clear that the First Amendment does not prevent government from passing laws to prevent false, misleading, or deceptive advertising. In addition, government can require that warning labels be printed on products such as tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protection of free speech does not prevent the government from requiring warning labels on some products, including cigarettes. Do you think this infringes on the rights of the tobacco companies?

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