Isn't this taking away your rights?

Question

Our first day of school was today, and a student in one of my classes was wearing a T-shirt with a Marlboro logo on it. Our teacher told her to go to the office because her shirt was inappropriate. Later on in the day, we found out that the student was sent home to change her shirt because it referenced tobacco.

But how can you say that the LOGO was a specific example of tobacco, I mean it's really advertising. It would be like wearing a Holister shirt to school. It's not like she had a picture of someone smoking or an actual picture of a cigarette on the shirt.

Isn't this taking away our first amendment rights for private actions? I just don't think it's ok...

Answer 1

The logo of a type of cigarette is a specific example of a tobacco product.

Tobacco is illegal for people under 18. Wearing a shirt with the Marlboro logo on it is advertising and illegal product (cigarettes) to minors.

Personally I don't understand the attraction of wearing logos on one's clothes. Why give free advertising? Isn't fashion about self-expression - not being a toady to corporate ad-men for the bourgeois  consumer culture?

Tell your pal not to wear something so tacky in the future.