In his 29-page opinion, Judge Leon wrote, "It is abundantly clear from viewing these images that the emotional response they were crafted to induce is calculated to provoke the viewer to quit, or never to start smoking an objective wholly apart from disseminating purely factual and uncontroversial information." A lawyer representing Lorillard Tobacco Co., one of the cigarette makers that sued the FDA, said in a statement, "Today's ruling reaffirms fundamental First Amendment principles by rejecting the notion that the government may require those who sell lawful products to adults to urge current and prospective purchasers not to purchase those products." Steven Shiffrin of Cornell Law School told Larry Mantle that 400-thousand tobacco-related deaths and billions of dollars in medical costs each year are reason enough to allow the images
In one recent roughly two year period the firm took in at least $45m from its tobacco clients, internal records show (5/x)I say at least because one insider told us that some of McKinsey's business with tobacco companies went through law firms, wasn't visible to us and could be protected by attorney-client privilege
The Tax Foundation calculates these numbers to determine a predicted $1 billion loss for states
He patented the process in 1924, and three years later the Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company acquired the patent and began manufacturing Spud Menthol Cooled Cigarettes. Today, as the Biden administration targets mentholated cigarettes, it behooves us to review the history of the tobacco industrys marketing campaigns that target Black Americans
