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Shards O' Glass, Inc. Had a Spokesman and a Statement of Responsibility
A parody company with a brand identity, a liability disclaimer, and a very specific satirical point — all created by the American Legacy Foundation in 2004.
From the Legacy Foundation to Truth Initiative: One Organisation, Two Names
The nonprofit that funds the truth® campaign was created by a legal settlement, not by the tobacco industry — and has no connection to this publication.
Bought in Four Hundred Newspapers, Signed by Fourteen Companies
A full page in about four hundred American newspapers in January 1954, signed by fourteen companies and trade organisations, announcing the Tobacco Industry Research Committee. Every later ruling answers it.
The Same Kind of Advertisement, With Text a Court Had Written
Five statement topics, a media schedule set by the court, and the same companies buying the space — the advertisement the 2006 judgment ordered, published sixty-three years after the industry wrote its own.
The Papers
The Settlement That Still Pays Out
Forty-six states, the four largest manufacturers, perpetual payment obligations and permanent marketing restrictions, signed in November 1998 and still running.
More Than a Thousand Pages of Findings Under the Racketeering Statute
Judge Gladys Kessler's 2006 judgment in United States v. Philip Morris delivered the federal government's fullest account of how the tobacco industry deceived the American public — and then spent a decade in appeals before any remedy reached a television screen.
The Act That Granted the Power to Set Standards
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act gave the FDA regulatory jurisdiction over tobacco products for the first time — but what it allowed the agency to do was precisely, and deliberately, limited.
Warning Labels, Drawn and Then Litigated
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act required graphic images on cigarette packs. The FDA proposed them in 2011, a federal circuit struck them down, and a revised rule remained under legal pressure more than a decade later.
The Four States That Did Not Wait
Before forty-six attorneys general signed the Master Settlement Agreement in November 1998, four states had already collected — on their own terms.
Millions of Pages of Discovery at UCSF
Discovery from decades of litigation, catalogued and public: how the industry's internal files became the archive later research quotes.
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truth® Launched in 2000 With the Industry's Own Money
Launched in 2000 out of the foundation the settlement created, with named executions, dated outputs, and the youth-prevalence figures the CDC published for the campaign period.
The CDC Campaign That Named Its Participants
From 2012, a federally funded national campaign that named the adults who appeared in it, and published its own evaluations of what it reached.
Plain Packaging Survived a WTO Challenge. Here Is What the Law Required.
Colour, typeface and warning area fixed by statute from December 2012 — and the investment-treaty claim and the WTO dispute the law survived.
Stoptober Has Run Every October Since 2012
Public Health England launched a mass quit attempt built on a single behavioural insight: twenty-eight days without smoking makes permanent cessation five times more likely.
The Remedy, Bought as Airtime
Which networks carried the ordered statements, at what frequency the court set, and which companies paid for the placement.
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Seven Chief Executives on the Record
April 1994: seven chief executives testified under oath to a House subcommittee, and the transcript became a primary source for the racketeering case that followed.
What the 2006 Judgment Actually Found
Judge Kessler's 1,683-page ruling named specific conduct, cited internal industry documents, and applied a precise statutory standard — here is what the text of the decision actually says.
Fifty-One Different Prices for the Same Pack
Every state sets its own cigarette excise tax, and the spread between the lowest and highest now exceeds five dollars a pack.
The Shipment Numbers, Year by Year
Domestic cigarette shipments have fallen in every decade since the 1980s — the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's figures show how far and how fast.
The Packs
Eight Years From Announcement to Still Not Final
The FDA's proposed nicotine product standard has been in motion since July 2017. As of early 2025, it has not cleared the rulemaking finish line.
Proposed in April 2022, Shelved in 2024
The FDA's menthol rule made it to the Federal Register. It did not make it to the Code of Federal Regulations.
Tobacco 21 Became Federal Law in December 2019
A spending bill signed on 20 December 2019 quietly raised the federal minimum purchase age for tobacco from 18 to 21 — wiping out a patchwork of state laws overnight.
The 2016 Deeming Rule and What It Covered
The regulation that finally brought e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah tobacco under federal law arrived in May 2016 — then spent years being reshaped by litigation and administrative delay.
Authorised, Denied, and Enjoined: The PMTA Record
The FDA's premarket review process has produced a short list of winners, a high-profile denial that courts immediately complicated, and an enforcement landscape that has not kept pace with the market it was meant to police.
IQOS: Authorised, Withdrawn, and Back
The first modified-risk authorisation the FDA granted, an exclusion order that followed a patent dispute, a withdrawal from the US market, and the route back.
Zyn's 2024 Shortage and the Senate Letter That Preceded It
A Senate letter in January 2024, a supply shortage that emptied the shelves, and the premarket framework the pouch category already sat inside.
What the EU Required and When It Applied
Pack size, combined health warnings, a menthol phase-out dated to 2020, and a notification route for novel products — in application across the EU from May 2016.
From the 1964 Report to the Present: The Surgeon General's Series as a Document
Thirty-four reports spanning six decades, each adding a new layer of documented harm to the public record.