Tobacco News

City officials may be indifferent to certain kinds of smoke in the Haight, but not so when it comes to marketing cigarettes using pictures of the iconic neighborhood.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Public Health Director Mitch Katz sent a letter Monday to R.J. Reynolds asking the tobacco company to cancel its “Break Free Adventure” marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes, saying the ads are geared toward children in violation of a 1998 settlement agreement between state governments and six tobacco companies.
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It has been two weeks since Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon made their historic announcement that from 2012, all tobacco products will need to be packaged in plain boxes, with only a standard font brand name to differentiate brands. The announcement drew well over 1000 Google global news hits, a glowing editorial in The Lancet, and green light analyses from very senior constitutional, trademark and international trade treaty lawyers. Read more