Tobacco companies are being forced by court order to run ads revealing facts they long hid from the public about the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke. However, the tobacco industry fought for more than a decade over the wording of these “corrective statements,” and as a result the ads lack some key details about their deceptions that surfaced during the trial. In her 2006 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler stated that the tobacco companies deceived the public, suppressed research and perpetuated addiction in order to protect their…
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