1. A federal judge upheld a Massachusetts law that requires tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients of cigarettes, ruling on the first of four challenges to the statute. 2. A new provincial law requires tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients in their cigarettes. 3. Disclosing the ingredients in a list similar to those on packaged food labels could allow competitors to copy successful formulas, tobacco executives argued. 4. Friday, Gov. William F. Weld is scheduled to sign a bill that will force cigarette companies to disclose the ingredients of a cigarette on the box. 5. If the companies are forced to disclose the ingredients, RJR may benefit if consumers are turned off by anything other than tobacco in their cigarettes. 6. It will be glad to compel cigarette manufacturers to disclose the ingredients that go into their product, regardless of the threat to trade secrets. 7. Kozlowski presented the survey at the second day of Public Health Commission hearings on proposed regulations requiring tobacco companies to disclose cigarette ingredients. 8. Likewise, Massachusetts, followed by Minnesota and a dozen other states, have put together home-grown measures requiring tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients of cigarettes. 9. Liggett agreed months ago to disclose ingredients on its cigarette cartons, and the company recently started doing so throughout the U.S., he said. 10. Only slightly more than half the manufacturers made a concerted effort to ensure that all the ingredients were accurately disclosed on the labels. |