Raab's reporting for the paper exonerated the Brooklyn teen, George Whitmore Jr., in part by establishing that a confession had been beaten out of him, while cops fed him details of the crime scene
Privately, one lawyer for the company explained why in a letter later recovered in a court filing: "We have never raised any objection to the use of our labels feeling, for your more or less private information, that it is not too bad an advertisement." The FTC called the packaging mimicry "an indirect form of advertising aimed at children." As the Truth Initiative's Koval explained, the tobacco industry had more than a passing interest in getting kids interested in its products
For a decade, anti-smoking groups as well as the federal government had contended the character was meant to appeal to children
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Trials start with people willing to try the trial intervention, whereas clinicians work with people who may be willing to try some options but not others