{"id":4129,"date":"2017-12-01T22:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2017-12-01T22:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:50:33","slug":"natural-american-spirit-finally-drops-additive-free-from-advertising-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"Natural American Spirit finally drops “additive-free” from advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Natural American Spirit finally drops “additive-free” from advertising<\/p>\n

Years of litigation have finally worked. Natural American Spirit has FINALLY changed its advertising.<\/p>\n

For years, this RJ Reynolds subsidiary had gotten away with advertising its cigarettes as being “natural” and “additive free.” Natural American Spirit had agreed in a settlement<\/a> early this year with the FDA to stop the deceptive advertising, yet I kept seeing ads in Sports Illustrated for “natural” and “additive free” Natural American Spirit cigarettes, somehow giving consumers the idea that their cigarettes were safer and more healthy … which they absolutely are not.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the whole issue had to wind through the legal process because in last week’s Sports Iilustrated, I FINALLY saw that NAS had dropped the “natural” and “additive-free” from its advertising.<\/p>\n

The new ad simply says: “Real. Simple. Different.” No “additive-free” BS. Though the ad later goes on to state that the only two ingredients are “tobacco and water.” (Never mind the fact that tobacco contains roughly 3,000 ingredients in of itself.)<\/p>\n

It’s a minor victory. RJR really had to be dragged kicking and screaming just to make this small change in its advertising. Advocates wanted the name “Natural American Spirit” changed, but the settlement allows the brand to remain. Again, to reiterate, Natural American Spirit started out as a Native-owned cigarette company but several years ago it was purchased by RJ Reynolds and it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RJ Reynolds. A lot of people still believe this is a Native-owned brand. It isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natural American Spirit finally drops “additive-free” from advertising Years of litigation have finally worked. Natural American Spirit has FINALLY changed its advertising. For years, this RJ Reynolds subsidiary had gotten away with advertising its cigarettes as being “natural” and “additive free.” Natural American Spirit had agreed in a settlement early this year with the FDA … Continue reading Natural American Spirit finally drops “additive-free” from advertising<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Natural-American-Spirit-e1512168575716.jpg?fit=300%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-14B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4070,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4070","url_meta":{"origin":4129,"position":0},"title":"What the hell? 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