UNITED STATES
Kessler will not delay decision in tobacco case

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler on Thursday said she will not delay an order in a 12-year-old lawsuit that would make the tobacco industry pay for corrective statements.

Kessler, who in 2006 found that tobacco companies violated the law by conspiring to hide the dangers of cigarettes, said the public should not have to wait “one or more years” for rulings in other that lawsuits challenge marketing restrictions and new warning labels under Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules.
The defendants – including Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard –wanted Kessler to delay her decision because the government’s proposed corrective statements would likely be subject to many of the same objections raised in newer challenges to federal tobacco regulations. Meanwhile, the Justice Department argued that postponing a decision would harm smokers, potential smokers and young people.
Kessler said that the corrective advertising that the Justice department wants the industry to pay for is “significantly different from the verbal and pictorial advertisements” required by the FDA.
She said the statements are “necessary to prevent and restrain” tobacco companies from “making fraudulent public statements” on the health effects of smoking. “The mere fact that First Amendment issues are being raised in both cases does not provide sufficient justification to delay the corrective action statements issue,” Kessler said in her ruling.
The corrective statements include health warnings and confessions of past wrongdoing. Kessler has not said what corrective statements should be included in ads, broadcast and print, where they must be placed or for how long. (pi)

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