U.S. tobacco companies' appeal to delay court-ordered ad blitz

[oplholik]

"Consumers will likely have to wait until 2015 or later to see a court-ordered advertising blitz detailing tobacco companies' deception, a lag of nine years after the original ruling, a court heard on Wednesday."

"tobacco lawyers said at the hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that they planned to push forward with an appeal about the wording of the ads, even after they struck an agreement this month with the Justice Department and anti-smoking advocates about what the ad campaign would look like in newspapers and on television."

U.S. tobacco companies' appeal to delay court-ordered ad blitz - NBC News.com

 

[Kent C]

The ad campaign is just stupid. After paying out close to $400 billion to the states, this is equivalent of putting the tobacco companies in stocks in the city square. The big lie is there wasn't anyone who didn't know cigarettes could be harmful and yet smoked by their own willful intent. Just like drinking and gambling, etc.

If they do this, then they should make Carol Browner and her EPA staff make the same type of ads on how they fudged the second hand smoke studies.