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The number of cigarettes sold by the largest cigarette companies in the United States to wholesalers and retailers in the U.S. declined from 267.7 billion in 2012 to 256.7 billion in 2013, according to the most recent Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report.
The FTC is asking the Office of Management and Budget for clearance to study sales, marketing, and expenditures in a complex new industry whose products have attracted a lot of attention. The proposed subject: e-cigarettes.
Tobacco companies Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. agreed to divest four cigarette brands to Imperial Tobacco Group to settle FTC charges that their proposed $27.4 billion merger would likely be anticompetitive. The order requires Reynolds to divest to Imperial four...
By staff of the Federal Trade Commission (1)
I. Introduction
MEMORANDUM
TO: Potential Cigarette Manufacturers or Importers
FROM: Division of Advertising Practices
Federal Trade Commission
United States Government
Federal Trade Commission
Washington, D.C. 20580
March 21, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission Act is the primary statute of the Commission.
This Act requires manufacturers, packagers, and importers to place one of four statutorily-prescribed health warning statements on cigarette packages and in advertisements, on a rotational basis as reviewed and approved by the Commission. Section 201(a) of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and...
