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Candy Flavored Cancer: How Did We Get Here?

Candy Flavored Cancer: How Did We Get Here?

  Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By: Elizabeth Fitch, Staff Writer When smoking tobacco cigarettes first became customary in the 1600’s, it was because advertisements portrayed cigarettes as a symbol of glamour, status, and wealth. Smoking was popular. It was encouraged. The negative effects of tobacco were either unknown or […]

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Hefty False Advertisement Fine Upheld by Circuit Court

By: Donald Shelton, Staff Writer In September 2019, after a decade and a half court battle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the district court’s order of contempt and $40 million sanctions against Warner Laboratories, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc., and individual officers.[1] In 2004, the Federal Trade […]

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