“These agreements have helped change the social norm in which it was easy for young people to purchase tobacco products. The significance of the 7-Eleven agreement depends on whether it extends to franchisees and whether it is strictly enforced by the corporate office.”
“The FDA didn't act earlier only because the tobacco industry successfully hid what it knew about the health effects of its products, and what it knew about the impact of nicotine on consumers.”
“Today, teenage girls smoke in record numbers, because the tobacco companies have been successful in associating smoking with independence, freedom, rebellion, and for many girls, a key for weight loss.”
“These rulings, ... leave the tobacco industry open to the vast majority and the most severe of the claims they are facing in California. Almost all of these cases involve industry behavior that took place before 1988.”
