Low tar cigarettes targeted
Julie Hunt Berry is a healthy and active 24-year-old is in no imminent threat of the evolution of lung diseases.But because they smoked sweet, nature low tar cigarettes, Kirkland woman feels misled, it was as qu’enfant and later as adults in their thinking, that smoking was not so ill, as was presented in the evening.
“I would have felt more guilty than smoking cigarettes outside, if I do not think it was better to smoke light cigarettes,” she says.
As recent studies have shown, however, so-called light and mild and content of cigarettes low tar are no less dangerous than what the industry calls related Full marks.
Huntsville Berry another woman and consumer protection complaints filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of all smokers of Washington, chose the lights smoking, because she thought they were not as dangerous as regular cigarettes.
The actions which target the class, blaming tobacco companies RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris USA misleading the public on packaging and advertising, and seek monetary damages in early $ 3 billion. The costumes also ask the court to prohibit tobacco companies claim that their cigarettes low tar, light or mild, which means that in any case not as bad for human health than other types .
Philip Morris lost $ 10.1 billion resort in Illinois in March 2003 after the charge of deception of the public by marketing low-tar cigarettes. The case is on appeal.
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