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I'm afraid for the tobacco industryRobin Conrad, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on SCOTUS' Good decision.
Simply put, the FTC will not be a smokescreen for tobacco companies' shameful marketing practices.FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz
This action, while commendable, should only be a first step. Further action is needed. . . .I urge the next Congress to reintroduce S. 625, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.FTC COMMISSIONER PAMELA JONES HARBOUR
[T]he FTC will not be a smokescreen for tobacco companies’ shameful marketing practices. For far too long, tobacco companies have advertised cigarettes using “light” and “low tar” descriptors based on machine-tested tar and nicotine results while knowing that the cigarettes, when actually smoked by people, would not deliver lower tar or nicotine. . . . After today, there should be no confusion: there is no such thing as a safe – or even a safer – cigarette.FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz
The commission believes the statements of tar and nicotine yields as measured by this test method are confusing at best, and are likely to mislead consumers.FTC, in its Federal Register Notice rescinding its Cambridge Test-based tar/nicotine guidleines.
The Maine statute is not targeted at cigarette smoking. It's targeted at deception.Good attorney David Frederick, to SCOTUS.
If you're going to conduct a national advertising campaign, you can't do it based on what a jury might decide in Des Moines compared to what a jury might decide in Atlanta.Altria attorney Theodore Olson, to SCOTUS.