NY and PA Sue Tobacco Company

Source from:  wbng.com By WBNG News Dec 4, 2007  12/06/2007

New York and Pennsylvania are among 6 states taking a tobacco company to court. This advertisement for Camel cigarettes was in last month's Rolling Stones Magazine. Attorney's General in the 8 states say the ad violates a national ban on the use of cartoons in cigarette ads. Several multi-million dollar lawsuits have now been filed against tobacco company R.J. Reynolds. Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says the spread "flies in the face" of the tobacco companies' pledge to halt all tobacco marketing to children. "When the tobacco settlement was first created the Joe Camel advertising campaign was singled out as an especially offensive effort to market cigarettes to children. Now nearly a decade later cartoons are being used to market the camel brand," said Corbett. R.J. Reynolds has not yet commented. Enditem