DOJ spars with tobacco companies over 'forced public confessions'

Tobacco companies are challenging the proposed language of public statements that the Justice Department wants them to distribute to prevent false claims about smoking's impact on health. The "corrective statements" are the most publicly visible component of an injunction issued after a judge concluded in 2006 that companies participated in a decades-long campaign to dupe consumers.

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