-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:26:06 -0800 From: Russ Kick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Konformist: Tobacco Firm Seeks to Stop U.S. Anti-Smoking Ads To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Tuesday January 22 6:55 PM ET Tobacco Firm Seeks to Stop U.S. Anti-Smoking Ads By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lorillard Tobacco Co. said on Tuesday it planned to ask a judge to put a halt to a hard-hitting advertising campaign against youth smoking, saying the ads wrongfully vilified cigarette makers. The maker of the ``truth'' ad campaign, which was funded by a 1998 settlement between the tobacco industry and 48 states, called Lorillard's move ``unwarranted and outrageous.'' Lorillard is creating ``a smoke screen to hide the company's real goal, which is to crush the 'truth' campaign because it's working to stop kids from smoking,'' said American Legacy Foundation President Dr. Cheryl Healton. Greensboro, North Carolina-based Lorillard, a unit of Loews Corp., said it has notified the foundation, as required by the tobacco settlement, that it intends in 30 days to ask a state judge, in a location not yet announced, to put an end to the campaign unless the foundation changes its tune. The company said it notified the foundation of its intent last Friday. The campaign, featuring print, radio, television and Internet advertisements, has included television ads depicting body bags symbolizing people who have died from smoking. Part of the massive tobacco settlement with the states was devoted to funding advertising campaigns intended to combat youth smoking. Lorillard spokesman Steve Watson said the foundation is violating provisions in the settlement forbidding advertising that personally attacks any employees of a tobacco company or vilifies companies themselves. ``They have continuously shown a pattern of vilification, and most recently have specifically attacked Lorillard with a radio ad which suggested that we put dog urine in our cigarettes,'' Watson told Reuters. ``We do not put dog urine or have we ever put dog urine in our cigarettes.'' .... full article is at <dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020122/ts/tobacco_lorillard_ads_dc_1.html> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------ "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes." http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
