Tobacco companies to print warnings

America’s biggest tobacco companies say they are ready and willing to pass along factual public health information about cigarettes.

However, they will not go along with being forced to underwrite an ad campaign that would have them brand themselves as liars.

In 2006, US District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the largest cigarette makers to publicly admit that they had lied for decades about the dangers of smoking. The ruling came after testimony from 162 witnesses, a nine-month bench trial, and thousands of findings by the judge that defendants engaged in a massive campaign of fraud.