Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal Volume 21 | Number 1 Article 5 1-1-1998 Tobacco is a Filthy Weed and from the Devil Doth Proceed: A Study of the Government's Efforts to Regulate Smoking on the Silver Screen Jason Edward Lavender Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_comm_ent_law_journal Part of the Communications Law Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Jason Edward Lavender, Tobacco is a Filthy Weed and from the Devil Doth Proceed: A Study of the Government's Efforts to Regulate Smoking on the Silver Screen, 21 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 205 (1998). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol21/iss1/5 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. "Tobacco is a Filthy Weed and from the Devil Doth Proceed": A Study of the Government's Efforts to Regulate Smoking on the Silver Screen by JASON EDWARD LAVENDER* I. Background ...................................................... 209 A. The Commercial Speech Doctrine ................ 209 1. The M otive Test ....................................... 209 2. The Content Test ..................................... 210 3. The Modem Commercial Speech Test: CentralHudson's 4-Part Test ................... 212 4. Strengthening the Third Prong of the CentralHudson Test .......................... 214 B. The Decline of the Central H udson Test? ....................... .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 215 1. 44 Liquormart v. Rhode Island.................. 215 2. The Influence of the Special Care D octrine ..........................................