Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 4/26/18


The U.S. Justice Department and the Big 3 tobacco manufacturers have reached an agreement on the next phase of rolling out corrective statements ordered by a federal judge in 2006. A brief legal update, known as a minute order, was filed Wednesday in the 19-year-old case. It affects the websites and cigarette packs of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA and ITG Brands LLC.

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