Tobacco regulation, litigation, and campaigns.
The landmark instruments — statutes, judgments, agreements — paired with the public record each one produced.
6 pieces in this section
1998 · the instrument
Forty-six states, the four largest manufacturers, perpetual payment obligations and permanent marketing restrictions, signed in November 1998 and still running.
since 1998 · the public record
Discovery from decades of litigation, catalogued and public: how the industry's internal files became the archive later research quotes.
The document on the left, the public answer on the right — the pairing this site is built on.
Before forty-six attorneys general signed the Master Settlement Agreement in November 1998, four states had already collected — on their own terms.
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 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 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.
The other sections
Freeze Pops · truth® · Tips · The Packs · the whole archive