From the editorial: "With ClearWay on the way out, there’s concern Big Tobacco could win the upper hand. But the Minnesota Department of Health is more than ready to take the lead."
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From the editorial: With ClearWay on the way out, there’s concern Big Tobacco could win the upper hand. But the Minnesota Department of Health is more than ready to take the lead.
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Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board | 9:00 am, Jan. 21, 2021 ×
DULUTH Using Big Tobacco’s own money against the industry, the stop-smoking group ClearWay Minnesota was created in 1998. Fueled with a slice of the $6.1 billion the tobacco industry paid the state to settle a suit claiming it deceived Minnesotans about the harmful nature of its products, ClearWay, for more than 20 years, has been a leader in the fight against deadly, cancer-causing tobacco products and against unscrupulous tobacco-industry marketing, including to vulnerable and minority communities and even to children, attempting to get them hooked on nicotine.