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See New FDA Ads About Cigarette Sales

Studies show that the best way to keep retailers from selling tobacco products to minors is through a combination of compliance activities and public education campaigns that target both retailers and consumers ...
In addition, the ads will run in 11 other markets including Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lafayette, Louisiana; San Antonio, Texas; Springfield, Missouri; Rockford, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Roanoke, Virginia; Lawton, Oklahoma; Augusta, Maine; Washington, DC, and ...
Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new advertising campaign in five state s and eleven media markets to help ensure greater retailer compliance with the FDA regulation that makes the sale of tobacco products to minors illegal ...

Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids

Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...
Studies show that the best way to keep retailers from selling tobacco products to minors is through a combination of compliance activities and public education campaigns that target both retailers and consumers ...

Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement

In addition, the ads will run in 11 other markets including Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lafayette, Louisiana; San Antonio, Texas; Springfield, Missouri; Rockford, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Roanoke, Virginia; Lawton, Oklahoma; Augusta, Maine; Washington, DC, and ...
Bulow says the settlement is really a national tax in disguise _ and one that results in many state s receiving less than their fair share ...
The deal was structured so that smokers would have to pay this wrote Bulow ...

Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves

From the TI documents we already have, we know they are far more important,'' he said, explaining that the tobacco companies launched a campaign to create the perception they ...
Indeed, objective readers can now see for themselves that these documents are not even material to the case at hand, let alone evidence that could prove the state 's case,'' the state ment said ...
Rutter found that about 300 documents of the Tobacco Institute contain evidence of fraud by the industry ...
Banzhaf said that, like soft-drink manufacturers, tobacco companies try to secure brand loyalty at a young age ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

Without this year's tax increases, as many as 20 billion more cigarette s would have been consumed by the end of next year, he estimated ...
Second, Plaintiffs argue that if some of the documents actually contain legal opinions of counsel in connection with litigation, then the crime-fraud exception applies ...
said it believed the Liggett documents did not ``remotely fit the description accorded them by the plaintiffs ...
Apparently the tobacco cases are an exception to that rule,'' Weber said ...
From the TI documents we already have, we know they are far more important,'' he said, explaining that the tobacco companies launched a campaign to create the perception they ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarette s ...
THIS MATTER came before the undersigned Special Master for hearing on April 21, 1997 as a result of Plaintiffs' March 21, 1997 Motion to Compel Production by Defendant ...
After having considered argument of counsel, the motion and exhibits attached thereto and having reviewed in-camera ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
The trend could undercut efforts by cash-strapped state s to raise revenues by hiking cigarette taxes ...
More specifically, Plaintiffs argue ( and attached persuasive exhibits to its motion) that the Tobacco Institute sought to create a public perception of not wanting ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid off by the settlement, which is estimated to generate a total of $285 billion through 2032 ...
He said it is no coincidence Camel's flavored blends appeared after the 1998 settlement that banned tobacco companies from ...
It describes the creation of a cigarette brand that ```breaks the rules' to appeal to a new generation and shock their parents to make conventional brands look bland and weary,'' according to The Palm Beach Post and USA Today ...

Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...
Now, antitobacco activists have joined with coastal environmentalists to battle the problem of cigarette butts fouling beaches, play areas and estuaries ...
Advocates of tobacco bonds say they permit local governments faster access to the settlement funds while shifting the risk of default to investors ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

Plaintiffs' argument here is that the Tobacco Institute sought to portray a public position that was contrary to the individual defendant tobacco companies' private, internal position ...
Advocates of tobacco bonds say they permit local governments faster access to the settlement funds while shifting the risk of default to investors ...
Bidis are small, but federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials reported they release three to five times more tar and nicotine than regular cigarette s ...
The popular television show, says Jeff Stier, associate director of the group ...