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A federal court has ordered Philip Moris USA & R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to state: Smoking cigarettes causes numerous diseases and on average 1,200 American deaths every day.

Freedom of speech does not prevent courts from ordering defendants to say or not say specific things to make up for their past illegal behavior. In this case, the court initially allowed Apple a little flexibility around steering, which Apple misused to make web purchases sound "scary". The penalty for that is the loss of that flexibility.



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