Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission's annual report to Congress on cigarette sales and advertising for 1998 shows that cigarette sales fell from 1997 to 1998, but advertising and promotional expenditures...

Information brokers who used deceptive methods to obtain private financial data about consumers and then sold the data through their Web site without the knowledge or consent of the consumers have...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Illinois inspected 14 used car dealers near the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Waukegan, North Chicago and Park City last Wednesday to...

The seven largest U.S. cigar companies have agreed to include warnings about significant adverse health risks of cigar use in their advertising and packaging in a settlement announced today by Federal...

What: Press conference to announce important agreements on the subject of new health warnings for consumers. Who: Robert Pitofsky Chairman Federal Trade Commission David Satcher Asst. Secretary for...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action: Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice describing the...

Steven Mishkin and Harris Cohen, two of the five individual defendants named in the Federal Trade Commission's 1998 lawsuit against Telecard Dispensing Corporation of Hollywood, Florida, have agreed...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it will ask a federal district court to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent Swedish Match AB's proposed $165 million acquisition of brands and other...

Pitofsky issued the following statement today on Capitol Hill: "The high price differential between reformulated and non-reformulated gasoline in the Midwest region has raised significant questions...