But Are Their Pants on Fire? Court Orders Tobacco Companies to Admit to Lies

November 30th, 2012 - Jill Ettinger

Pall Malls

It may be a case of too little too late, but in an historic ruling, a federal judge has ordered major tobacco manufacturers to admit they spent decades using deceptive marketing practices to promote cigarette sales. The companies will have to spend their own money on an advertising campaign that admits the companies lied about the safety of cigarettes as far back as 1964.

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