But while Judge Kessler ordered tobacco companies to stop labeling cigarettes as low tar or light to convey that they were less hazardous than full-flavor cigarettes, she said an earlier ruling prevented her from awarding what could have amounted to $10 billion in damages
The difference of one word produces a strikingly different effect, the Counterproposals authors note, in their passage taking credit for the translation changes
Eliminating smoking in America would, over time, eliminate about one-third of all cancer deaths
"And it's precisely because it's going to have an effect on sales that they are going to lobby hard against it, threaten legal cases." But not everyone believes that Australia's policy of imposing bland tobacco branding has done much to deter smoking, which has been steadily declining for decades, according to Julian Morris, vice-president of research at the libertarian think tank the Reason Foundation
In 1904 Duke reorganized his many tobacco firms into a single corporation
