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\nFile this one under, “you have to be absolutely shitting me.”<\/p>\n

Five Big Tobacco companies, led by (cue shock) R.J. Reynolds, the sleaziest of the sleaze Big Tobacco companies, filed suit <\/a>against the Food and Drug Administration over graphic warning labels being required by the agency.<\/p>\n

Get this, the complaint claims the labels would make their customers, i.e., smokers, “depressed, discouraged and afraid” to buy their products.<\/p>\n

Oy.<\/p>\n

That’s the FUCKING point! To DISCOURAGE and make people AFRAID to use the product.<\/p>\n

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Arrrrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Must …. avoid … kicking …. cat…..<\/p>\n

These warning labels<\/a> are all part of legislation signed into law in 2009 that gave the FDA regulatory authority over Big Tobacco. These same kinds of graphic warnings have been implemented in Great Britain, Canada and Australia (and they’ve been controversial in those places, as well.)<\/p>\n

Altria, i.e. Philip Morris, as usual likes to play nice and has not joined this litigation. With 60 percent of the cigarette market cornered, Philip Morris doesn’t need to jump into these frivolous suits (and Philip Morris actually helped write that 2009 law to begin with, which is weird, because if their competitors can no longer advertise, they can cling on to that 60 percent market share much more easily.).<\/p>\n

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These images, which will be unveiled a year from now, include sickly children, people dying of cancer and diseased gums and lungs. These kinds of images have been on cigarette packs in Commonwealth countries for a few months now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File this one under, “you have to be absolutely shitting me.” Five Big Tobacco companies, led by (cue shock) R.J. Reynolds, the sleaziest of the sleaze Big Tobacco companies, filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration over graphic warning labels being required by the agency. Get this, the complaint claims the labels would make … Continue reading Big Tobacco sues U.S. government over warning labels as being too “depressing”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10,17,25,50,55,64,73],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-tobacco-campaign","category-big-tobacco","category-cigarette-advertising","category-fda","category-phillip-morris","category-rj-reynolds","category-surgeon-general","category-tobacco-litigation","tag-anti-tobacco-advertising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-9D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=886","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"Federal judge finds graphic cigarette warnings unconstitutional","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"March 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Not surprising since the same judge a few weeks ago slapped an injunction on these cigarette labels. 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