FTC, TFK track big tobacco spending on ads, promotion

FTC, TFK track big tobacco spending on ads, promotion

The FTC has released 2018 data on marketing expenditures from the major cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies, finding that the tobacco companies spent $9.1 billion on advertising and promotion, or over $1 million per hour. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has tobacco marketing fact sheets with this new data. TFK also has new estimates of tobacco industry expenditures in each state, available here and in the online state toll pages.