May 15, 2014
Radio One Inc. told a Washington federal court Thursday that the terms of Big Tobacco's recent agreement with the U.S. government should be modified to allow key smaller television networks such as its TV One unit to show the anti-tobacco advertisements the deal calls for.
April 24, 2014
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc. on Thursday said a deal between the federal government and tobacco manufacturers to air anti-tobacco ads should do more to target young Hispanic Americans.
January 28, 2014
Viacom Inc. argued Monday that, as part of their recent accord with the U.S. government, tobacco companies should spring for anti-tobacco advertisements on MTV, BET and other Viacom-owned stations popular with young and black people.
January 22, 2014
Big Tobacco and the U.S. government asked a Washington federal judge Wednesday to accept a recent accord on how the companies will disseminate statements that admit to their deceiving the public about cigarettes' health effects, while a larger battle looms over the statements' content.
January 10, 2014
The three largest U.S. tobacco companies entered into an accord with the federal government on Friday on how to disseminate statements that admit to their deceiving the public about cigarettes' addictiveness and health effects, paving the way for a battle over the statements' content.
November 27, 2012
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco giants to publicly admit and advertise that they conspired to deceptively market cigarettes by downplaying their adverse health effects and addictiveness in the U.S. government's long-standing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act suit.
October 15, 2012
Tobacco giants Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. told a Washington federal court Monday that the government's proposed advertisements detailing the companies' past fraudulent cigarette marketing go beyond the scope of court mandates and skew the truth.
December 14, 2011
Tobacco giants Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has agreed to jointly pay $6.25 million to end a dispute over internal documents that they allegedly suppressed to hide smoking-related health concerns, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday.
June 03, 2011
Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said Friday that they will appeal a Washington federal judge's ruling that she can preside over a racketeering case against them despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new tobacco oversight duties.
June 01, 2011
A federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday that recently enacted tobacco control legislation did not cancel out a district court's jurisdiction to impose injunctions against Philip Morris USA Inc. and other tobacco companies following a landmark ruling in 2006.