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Cigarettes used to be big money in the days of the AMC drama Mad Men. Not anymore – it’s a thing of the past as cigarette companies face more legal restrictions and a cultural shift on smoking. This past week, a federal judge ordered that tobacco companies have to advertise in media outlets that they had “deliberatively deceived” individuals in the U.S. on the dangers of smoking and manipulated the advertising of their products.
In a report by the Associated Press, cigarette purveyors Phillip Morris, Reynolds, and Lorillard have to also to publicize that smoking causes 1,200 every day and that secondhand smoke results in the deaths of 3,000 people in the U.S. annually.
“This court made a number of explicit findings that the tobacco companies perpetuated fraud and deceived the public regarding the addictiveness of cigarettes and nicotine,” commented U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the Associated Press article.
The corrective statements must touch on five different topics, such as the addictiveness of smoking and the negative health affects that can come about as a result of smoking. According to USA Today, the companies have not stated where they will be running the ads. Representatives of Altria Group Inc., who own Phillip Morris USA, and Reynolds American Inc., owners of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., noted that they are currently looking over the renewing to determine what steps to take.
Those who are against smoking believe that the ruling by Kessler is significant.
“The most critical part of the ruling is that it requires the tobacco companies to state clearly that the court found that they deceived the American public and that they are telling the truth now only because the court is ordering them to do so,” noted Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, in an interview with the Associated Press. “This isn’t the last word, but this is a vitally important step because this should resolve exactly what the tobacco companies are required to say.”
Source:
http://blogs.redorbit.com/judge-demands-corrective-statements-from-cigarette-companies/
In a report by the Associated Press, cigarette purveyors Phillip Morris, Reynolds, and Lorillard have to also to publicize that smoking causes 1,200 every day and that secondhand smoke results in the deaths of 3,000 people in the U.S. annually.
“This court made a number of explicit findings that the tobacco companies perpetuated fraud and deceived the public regarding the addictiveness of cigarettes and nicotine,” commented U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the Associated Press article.
The corrective statements must touch on five different topics, such as the addictiveness of smoking and the negative health affects that can come about as a result of smoking. According to USA Today, the companies have not stated where they will be running the ads. Representatives of Altria Group Inc., who own Phillip Morris USA, and Reynolds American Inc., owners of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., noted that they are currently looking over the renewing to determine what steps to take.
Those who are against smoking believe that the ruling by Kessler is significant.
“The most critical part of the ruling is that it requires the tobacco companies to state clearly that the court found that they deceived the American public and that they are telling the truth now only because the court is ordering them to do so,” noted Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, in an interview with the Associated Press. “This isn’t the last word, but this is a vitally important step because this should resolve exactly what the tobacco companies are required to say.”
Source:
http://blogs.redorbit.com/judge-demands-corrective-statements-from-cigarette-companies/
