Decision 23/2010 on limits on tobacco advertising
4 March 2010
Decision number: Decision 23/2010. (III. 4.)
Subject of the case:
Limits on tobacco advertising
The freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution does not exclude limitations on business advertising activity. Tobacco corporations are not citizens; they do not have ideas of their own and are not therefore given the fundamental right to free speech in the same way as real people. Consequently, the state can impose limits on tobacco advertising.