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Kurt Donsbach Convicted of Practicing Medicine without a License (1971)

Kurt Donsbach Convicted of Practicing Medicine without a License (1971) In 1970, when Kurt Donsbach operated the Nature’s Way Health Food Store, in Westminster, California, undercover agents of the Fraud Division of the California Bureau of Food and Drug observed him representing to customers that vitamins, minerals, and/or herbal tea were effective against cancer, heart disease, emphysema (a chronic lung disease), and many other ailments. Most of the products he “prescribed” were packaged by Westpro Labs, a company he owned which repackaged dietary supplements and a few drugs. Charged with nine counts of illegal activity, Donsbach pleaded guilty in 1971 to one count of practicing medicine without a license and agreed to cease “nutritional consultation.” He was assessed $2,750 and served two years’ summary probation. …

R. J. Reynolds Agrees to Reduce Teen Targeting and Pay $17 Million to Settle Case

R. J. Reynolds Agrees to Reduce Teen Targeting and Pay $17 Million to Settle Case In December 2004, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced court approval of a settlement under which the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR) will significantly reduce its advertising in magazines with large teen readerships. The settlement ended a lawsuit, filed in 2001, which charged that the firm’s placement of cigarette ads in magazines with many underage readers violated the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) reached in 1998 between state attorneys general, and RJR and other tobacco companies. The MSA banned marketing of tobacco products to youths. Under the settlement’s terms, if a publication’s teen audience comprises 15% or more of its total readership, RJR will be prohibited from advertising in the …