WASHINGTON (Reuters) – the US Government called the

ruling of a judge who blocked the attempt to bind to the

tobacco companies to show graphic images in packages of

cigarettes and advertising, as a man who exhales the smoke to

through a hole in the throat.

The appeal was expected after the district judge

Richard Leon took the side of the tobacco companies to

earlier this month and granted a term interim

blocking requirement.

Leon said that companies would probably have success in

his claim of unconstitutionality against the new

warning graphic as a violation of the first

Amendment.

Food and Drug Administration

United (FDA for its acronym in English), launched in June nine

warnings new so that they enter into force in September of

2012, the first change in the warning labels of

cigarettes in 25 years.

Congress ordered the FDA to impose new labels

as part of a law of 2009 makes the Agency

responsible for regulating products with tobacco.

The requirement was that the warnings cover the

top of the front and the back of the package half

cigarettes and 20 percent of the ads printed.

In addition, the warnings should contain color images

of the consequences for the health of the consumption of tobacco, such as

lung diseases, rotten teeth and corpses.

But Leon said that the images were not adapted, as

that means that it is unlikely that they will survive the supervision

constitutional.

Stressed that they provoke an emotional response rather than

limited to provide factual information and not

controversial, crossing the line to use the publicity of the

company to promote actions officers.

The Government appealed the ruling of Leon the Court of

United States for the District of Columbia appeals. In

ultimately, the case could end up in the Supreme Court.

R.J. Reynolds of Reynolds American Inc., Lorillard unit

Inc., Liggett Group LLC and Commonwealth Brands Inc, property of

the British Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, sued the FDA in

August to block the new warnings.

Argued that the new graphic warnings the

forced “to participate in the anti-smoking defence” in the name of the

Government, which violated their right to freedom of

expression.

Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable deaths in

United States and represents one in every five deaths in the

year, according to the Centers for prevention and Control of

Diseases.

About 21 percent of American adults

smoke cigarettes, a number that has changed little since the 2004.