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New Signs Correct Companies' Lies
"Smoking kills, on average, 1,200 Americans. Every day.” This is one of 17 new signs, known as “corrective statements,” that are being posted next to cigarette displays in tobacco retailers throughout Otsego County, a result of a December 2022 federal court order. These new signs “correct” the misstatements and flat-out lies told by the tobacco industry about the health harms of smoking and secondhand smoke, the addictiveness of smoking and nicotine, and the industry’s manipulation of cigarettes to make them more addictive. The court order stipulates the signs must be installed between July 1 and September 30, 2023 and will stay posted until June 30, 2025.
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