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In 2010, due to the misleading nature of the characterization "light" and the lack of actual health benefits, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of descriptors like "light," "mild," and "low-tar." This regulatory change responded to mounting evidence that light cigarettes were equally harmful as regular cigarettes and offered no genuine health benefits
Since the November 1998 settlement between the tobacco industry and 46 state attorney generals, tobacco companies are prohibited from directly or indirectly opposing state or local efforts to impose limitations on non-tobacco products which are designed to look like tobacco products. 35 Our data, however, suggest a need for more vigorous public health strategies to eliminate the influence of these products on children
Privately, one lawyer for the company explained why in a letter later recovered in a court filing: "We have never raised any objection to the use of our labels feeling, for your more or less private information, that it is not too bad an advertisement." The FTC called the packaging mimicry "an indirect form of advertising aimed at children." As the Truth Initiative's Koval explained, the tobacco industry had more than a passing interest in getting kids interested in its products
I barely remember any single day I spent without a cigarette
