Cigarette companies ordered to display health warning signs at retailers

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The Justice Department announced a court order requiring cigarette companies to post health warning signs at retailer locations.

, Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and four cigarette brands owned by ITG Brands to display the signs for two years. Representatives for the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The retail signs will be "designed to be eye-catching" and will include warnings such as "Smoking cigarettes causes numerous diseases and on average 1,200 American deaths every day" and "The nicotine in cigarettes is highly addictive and that cigarettes have been designed to create and sustain addiction."

As part of earlier court orders, similar health warning statements in 2017 began appearing in newspaper and TV ads, on cigarette packages and on the companies' websites. The retail signs were the subject of several appeals before an agreement on them was reached this past May, the Justice Department said.

 

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thank goodness. 🙄

They are so concerned about people smoking cigarettes which are legal but provide free dope needles and fund 24 hour drug injection sites with tax dollars 🤔 MakeItMakeSense

Do they have such signs posted at pot shops?

They've already been doing this for 40 years..

SOMETHING IS WRONG IN OUR COUNTRY ..THEY WANT COMPANIES TO POST SIGN WARNING HEALTH EFFECT OF CIGARETTE ..HOW ABOUT WEEDS ../IS WEED HEALTHY ..PLEASE STOP BEING HYPOCRAT

Does big Pharma need to show health warning signs for the Covid vaccine?

Another waste of time. Someone was paying/getting paid to push for it though. Wonder who?

Yet they advertise POT on billboards and cabs in Vegas. Let that sink in.

Why are cigarettes still legal if we know the kill?

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