Brief History of Tobacco Advertising to Women

Honest and truthful tobacco executives under oath?

The message in this cartoon is that the tobacco industry has categorically denied the health dangers of smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, and their manipulation of the amount of nicotine in their products.

The captions read, from left to right:

• "Philip Morris does not manipulate nor independently control the level of nicotine."
  - William J. Campbell, Philip Morris

• "Cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definition of addiction."
  - James W. Johnston, R.J. Reynolds

• "Oral tobacco has not been established as a cause of oral cancer."
  - Joseph Taddeo, U.S. Tobacco

• "The data that we have been able to see has all been statistical data that has not convince me that smoking causes death."
  - Andrew H. Tisch, Lorillard Tobacco

• "I believe that nicotine is not addictive."
  - Edward A. Horrigan Jr., Liggett Group

• "I believe that nicotine is not addictive."
  - Thomas E. Sandefur Jr., Brown & Williamson

• "I, too, believe that nicotine is not addictive."
  - Donald S. Johnston, American Tobacco