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Throughout the years, marketing and advertising claims by the defendants regarding its product have included natural, additive free, 100% additive free, organic, unadulterated tobacco product, certified organic tobacco, and 100% natural. While the companies would never acknowledge why they use these terms and make these claims in advertising, the intention is obvious: to give consumers the impression that Natural American Spirit cigarettes pose fewer health risks than the regular cigarette
The New York Times wrote that cigarettes "lighten[ed] the inevitable hardships of war," and another popular periodical described cigarettes as the "last and only solace of the wounded." [2] [5] During World War II, tobacco companies continued to foster this culture of wartime smoking by sending free cigarettes to troops and supporting the inclusion of cigarettes into military rations
