No to flavoured cigarettes

Critics said the flavoured cigarettes, with names such as "Mocha Tobacco" and Twista Lime" were meant to entice young people to smoke.

The company will stop identifying cigarettes with candy, fruit, desserts, or alcoholic beverage names, imagery or ads, said a statement from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who led an investigation into flavoured cigarettes, the Associated Press reported.

The investigation included officials from 38 states and the US territory of the Northern Marianas. As part of settling the investigation, Reynolds also agreed to stop using scented promotional material, such as scratch and sniff samples. – (HealthDayNews)

October 2006