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Judge Leon applied strict scrutiny to the warning labels, meaning that the FDA had to show that its rule was narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest. He applied this standard because the warning labels are compelled speech of not simply purely factual and uncontroversial information. The court said that if the mandated disclosure had been only of factual and uncontroversial information, then it would have been subjected only to the reasonable relationship test set out in the Supreme Courts Zauderer decision

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When humans inhale or ingest nicotine, it stimulates the release of neurotransmitters in the brain, such as dopamine, which creates feelings of pleasure and reward

A cerebrovascular accident in which a broken artery or blood clot results in lack of blood flow to part of the brain, causing death of brain cells