Strong cigarettes

Seven Years' War against the court's largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States ended in victory for opponents of smoking. The District Washington is obliged to tobacco giants such as Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Liggett and Lorillard Tobacco, to stop tempting local smokers to light and mild cigarettes since 2007.

This means that from January 1 of such varieties as cigarettes with low tar, light, ultra-light, soft and natural outlawed in the United States. According to the BBC the court found tobacco manufacturers guilty of conspiring to provide smokers with false information about the hazardous effects of smoking. In addition, cigarette manufacturers will now have to defend publicly in publications Sunday, national publications and their Web sites. Tobacco companies must run their own campaign of anti: correcting information about the dangers of smoking cigarettes should be in the Packs. Light cigarettes have appeared in the United States as promoting healthier smoking at 60. Today, the American tobacco industry used this label to refer to cigarettes with a tar content of the law.

U.S. Minister has not had time to take compensation totaling $ 280 billion to finance campaigns against smoking. Thus the material costs of tobacco manufacturers agreed to pay court costs of $ 135 million. However, this did not prevent opponents of cigarettes with the celebration of victory: The fact that the prohibition of light and soft blocked the entire structure of the sale of tobacco products. Nevertheless, the court in Washington has been applied only in the U.S.: it is used in Europe, for example, to describe the various forces cigarette color-coded.