Because goods were bought with promissory notes that represented a certain amount of tobacco, quality control was vital to the industry's success
This standard is appropriate and necessary given the tobacco companies long history of making deceptive claims about supposedly safer products, writes Becky Wexler
3 (2017): 306, [34] Tobacco Trade: Duty-Free Cigarettes Sold in Unlimited Quantities on the U.S.-Mexico Border Post Customs Challenges (United States Government Accountability Office, October 2017), [35] Tobacco Trade: Duty-Free Cigarettes Sold in Unlimited Quantities on the U.S.-Mexico Border Post Customs Challenges (United States Government Accountability Office, October 2017), [36] Tobacco Trade: Duty-Free Cigarettes Sold in Unlimited Quantities on the U.S.-Mexico Border Post Customs Challenges (United States Government Accountability Office, October 2017), 16, [37] Richard T
The AHA says the tobacco companies fought hard against the corrective statements, going so far as to seek removal of the phrase here is the truth. Price discounts aimed at youthful smokers Their main business is still to sell cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the Federal Trade Commission reports they spend $8.2 billion a year to market cigarettes in the U.S., the bulk of it spent on price discounts that research has found increases youth smoking
