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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major tobacco companies must take out advertisements saying discount car rental usa they deliberately deceived the U.S. public about the danger and addictiveness of cigarettes , a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia aims to finalize the wording of the advertisements that the judge first ordered in 2006 after finding the companies violated federal racketeering law.
U.S. District discount car rental usa Judge Gladys Kessler rejected the companies' position, finding that the final wording - which the companies and the U.S. Justice Department have fought over for years - is factual and not controversial.
One of them begins: "A federal court has ruled that the defendant tobacco companies deliberately deceived the American public by falsely selling and advertising low tar and light cigarettes as less harmful than regular cigarettes."
Two of the largest companies, Altria Group Inc and Reynolds American Inc, did not immediately return messages discount car rental usa requesting comment. The companies could continue to fight the language with another appeal in a case that began in 1999 with the government's racketeering discount car rental usa charges.