Court: Tobacco Deliberately Deceived Public

Judge Gladys Kessler has issued her ruling on the corrective statements in the federal lawsuit against the tobacco industry, ordering tobacco companies to admit in each corrective statement that “a Federal court has ruled that the Defendant tobacco companies deliberately deceived the American public.”  The corrective statements will be made through newspaper and television advertising, on the companies’ web sites and on cigarette packaging. The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, one of the public health organizations advocating that tobacco companies publicly admit their deception, provides a press statement below. The court Order is attached on the reports page. Here is the Reuters story.  

 

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