States Sue R.J. Reynolds Over Rolling Stone Ads
Who said Rolling Stone magazine was irrelevant? Today eight states — including New York — are filing suit against the second-largest tobacco company involving a controversial eight page spread in Rolling Stone. The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ad in the November 15 issue of the magazine, involves cartoons, which are considered a bete noir to anti-smoking activists who claim that they attract children. From The AP:
”’Their latest nine-page advertising spread in Rolling Stone, filled with cartoons, flies in the face of their pledge to halt all tobacco marketing to children,’ Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Tom Corbett said in a statement released Tuesday.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in