Cartoon Advertisement Case Settled

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 03/30/2010

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco has agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000 for running cartoon advertisements the state claims violated the 1998 master settlement agreement, according to a Hartford Business Journal story. On Friday, attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, announced the settlement, which is said to cover the state's legal costs of an action it brought in 2007 alleging a Camel advertising spread in Rolling Stone magazine used cartoons in violation of the master settlement agreement Reynolds insists it did nothing wrong. Enditem