The delay, now pushed to 2025, raised concerns about the EU's commitment to its anti-tobacco agenda, with some questioning whether the tobacco industry had any influence on the issue.
Gottlieb said that from his perspective, 'holding a cigarette company responsible for giving free samples of a deadly and addictive product to kids in Boston, while spending tens of millions of dollars each year to lie to the public about what it knew, and selling a product called Lights as better for you while knowing it was likely to cause more cancer than its regular cigarettes, shouldnt take 8 years, hundreds of attorney hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses.' Altria, the parent company to Phillip Morris, did not respond to request for comment
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