Cigarette smoking report released

(October 2, 2012) -- The largest cigarette makers spend billions of dollars to lower the net prices paid by smokers when they light up, the FTC reports. In its latest update on cigarette marketing, released September 21, the heftiest expenditures in 2009 and 2010 subsidized cigarette distributors so they could cut the retail price of cigarettes. Nearly $6.7 billion in subsidies made up around 80 percent of total advertising and promotional budgets....

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