In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, granting the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the ability to regulate the tobacco industry.One provision directed FDA to require large, graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging.A few years later, however, tobacco companies challenged proposed FDA warnings on First Amendment grounds.These warnings, based on Canadian counterparts, featured graphic imagery, such as an illustration of a cigarette-smoking man exhaling through a tracheotomy hole.A federal district judge agreed, and an appeals court upheld the ruling, which asserted that the warnings violated cigarette makers' free speech rights. The tobacco companies' suit and the court rulings were an example of a matter of _____________ law becoming a matter of _____________ law.

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The case began as a matter of administrative law, involving FDA regulations, but became a matter of public law due to constitutional issues regarding free speech.

In 2009, Congress Passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco