Tobacco firms celebrate as judge rules against graphic images on packets | Business | The Guardian
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A judge has blocked a federal requirement that would have forced US tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking.
US District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled that the mandate to put the images, which include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, on cigarette packets violated the free speech amendment to the constitution.
