news article about cigarette smoking From the Archive: The Tobacco Industry and Advertising: Women in Interwar Britain Citizens Against Tobacco Smoke |

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WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy.

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People said that, "It's like smoking old socks." And that they were "worse than dried buggy whip or coffee grounds in a newspaper wrapper." The company's director of marketing acknowledged that many found the cigarettes disagreeable at first, but insisted that, "If a person will smoke a carton of these he won't be able to tell the difference." Nevertheless, the company managed to find a small, niche market selling to smokers trying to quit who wanted something that would replicate the ritual of smoking but without the nicotine

They had to fine Pfizer $2.7 billion for a series of ongoing violations of labeling and incorrect prescriptive guidelines and things like that