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Article: American Legacy Foundation(R) Statement of Support for the Federal Trade Commission Reversal on Tar and Nicotine Yield Statements on Cigarettes

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July 8, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Julia Cartwright of American Legacy Foundation, +1-202- 454-5596, jcartwright@americanlegacy.org

Statement by Cheryl G. Healton, Dr. P.H., president and CEO, The American Legacy Foundation

WASHINGTON,July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Today the Federal Trade Commission proposed to withdraw a guidance it created in 1966 that allowed tobacco companies to market their products using tar and nicotine numbers based on the Cambridge Testing Method, or FTC Test method.

The American Legacy Foundation(R) commends the FTC for its proposal to prohibit tobacco companies from claiming it endorses the thoroughly discredited Cambridge Testing Method for determining tar and ...

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