Tobacco companies eliminated health risks for decades

In summer 2006, it was declared by a federal judge that the tobacco factories where involved in racketeering; citing that the tobacco industry had been involved in sustainable conspiracy 10 years in an attempt to conceal the hazards of smoking from their user base.

Then the tobacco factory where forced to place 
advertisements in the national press discovering the negative
effects on health tobacco smoking.

The judge went on to say that the tobacco companies were involved in the conspiracy to cover since 1953 when a tobacco manufacturers assembly met in New York at the Plaza Hotel and implemented a detail relationship to repel concerns the public on the risks to tobacco-related health to smoke. The judge also said that in conflicts with the suggestions made in 1964 by the US Surgeon General linking lung cancer to smoking, the tobacco industry continues to refute the serious risks of smoking their product.

Despite the request of the tobacco industry they did not want to target young people, it was also discovered that, in fact, they sold tobacco products to underage consumers. The industry was also guilty of following the habits of young people with their likes and dislikes ensuring that any publicity carried out by the tobacco industry has been noticed by young people.

In 1999, the Clinton administration accused of racketeering tobacco manufacturers as an elaborate plot to fool the general public from the harmful effects of smoking and to cover the knowledge they had that suggests otherwise.

Under the decision, tobacco companies were ordered to stop using several product descriptions as light, low tar, low tar, light, ultra-light or natural or other abstracts that could be perceived as if the cigarettes may pose a danger to health or reduces an attempt to reduce the dangers of smoking their product.

Some ants smoking campaigns poorly considered the decision to be a success, but many of them talked about the amount of time it took before the government reacted to the use of tobacco and also the period of long was the case. Some viewers believed the courts where action not tough enough against tobacco companies.

The activists were generally satisfied with the finding of liability on the part of tobacco manufacturers of the court, but were disappointed that the court did not suffer any remedies that the government sought. Despite this, the anti-smoking activists hope that the court imposed proposals would have a positive effect on the health of the American public.

Many people felt that the trial was a hollow victory, but nevertheless certain advantages come again to highlight the health risks associated with smoking, the tobacco companies have not been able to refute.

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