Sentences with phrase «u.s. tobacco companies»

In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

This week, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

March 12, 2002 Cigarette ads target youth, violating $ 250 billion 1998 settlement Despite an explicit ban since 1998 on directing advertising at children, U.S. tobacco companies selectively increased youth targeting in 1999 and 2000 report researchers from the University of Chicago.

Even so, Alpert says, U.S. tobacco companies continue to add flavors to small cigars, smokeless and other tobacco products.

An even more distressing example of cultural imperialism is the recent media campaign by U.S. tobacco companies to increase their cigarette sales overseas.

Not exact matches

The second largest tobacco company in the U.S. is the parent of R.J. Reynolds, American Snuff Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, and Niconocompany in the U.S. is the parent of R.J. Reynolds, American Snuff Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, and NiconoCompany, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, and Niconovum AB.

Altria (Philip Morris» parent company) sells the same branded tobacco products exclusively in the U.S..

Sold by the major multinational tobacco and other companies, the devices are aggressively marketed in print, television and the Internet with messages similar to cigarette marketing in the 1950s and 1960s, even in the U.S. and other countries that have long banned advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products.

The study's authors, representing more than 3 dozen medical centers, government health agencies and institutes in the U.S., Asia and Europe, credit this rise in smoking among Asians to aggressive product marketing by tobacco companies and a lack of education about health issues related to tobacco.

Altria (Philip Morris» parent company) sells the same branded tobacco products exclusively in the U.S..

But when state and U.S. prosecutors successfully sued the tobacco companies for systematically misleading the public about the risks their products caused, no one's free speech rights were infringed.

Seven of the organizations that signed this letter to Pruitt — and five of the actual representatives who signed — also recently penned a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration defending «electronic and heat - not - burn» tobacco products (or vaping products), indicating that this network is defending the tobacco industry as well as oil and gas companies.

In 2006, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided that the tobacco companies» fraudulent campaign amounted to a racketeering enterprise.

[1] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors, which it says «determine the U.S. Chamber's policy positions on business issues and advise the U.S. Chamber on appropriate strategies to pursue,» includes representation from the fossil fuel industry such as ConocoPhillips and Consol Energy (one of the biggest coal producers in the US), large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Bayer, and the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).

And an extra-special shout to West Virginia AG Darrel McGraw, who has fought valiantly on behalf of those victimized by big drug and tobacco companies, and fended off a very tough challenger who was heavily financed by both the U.S. and West Virginia Chambers of Commerce.

On Monday, Nedra Pickler of The Associated Press reports, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted the tobacco companies» request for an injunction that will prevent the FDA from requiring the warnings.

On Wednesday, the FDA campaign may have died out altogether, as U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted summary judgment in favor of five tobacco companies who objected that the proposed warnings would violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

Just about every company in the U.S. will charge you tobacco rates EVEN if you admit to having a cigarette once or twice per year.