Cigarette label rules: Legitimate warning or 'compelled speech'?

In choosing a passel of new graphic warning labels that the U.S. government would have cover half of every cigarette package sold, officials of the Food & Drug Administration wrestled with one of the central questions of any public health campaign worth its salt: Would the warnings get a rise out of smokers?

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots Blog

August 17, 2011