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Who forced the cigarette companies to run those anti-smoking ads?

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageJudge Gladys Kessler's ruling in 2006 was the basis for tobacco companies' corrective statements now airing on TV and placed in newspapers.Tobacco Free Kids, CC BY-SA

You may have seen ads run by the big cigarette companies listing the dangers of smoking and that they manipulated cigarettes to make them more addictive.

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