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...prohibition of all cigarette advertising. Such commercials have been forbidden on television and radio for the past 15 years, and the A.M.A. will now lobby to get Congress to extend the injunction to newspapers, magazines, billboards and even skywriting. The association would also prohibit ads for snuff and chewing tobacco. This sweeping ban is necessary, the doctors argue, because the health risks are so great. Although the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, some experts believe that perhaps 1,000 deaths in the U.S. each day are associated with smoking cigarettes...
...tobacco industry is far from being the nation's largest advertiser: last year it spent only $872 million on ads, in contrast to $2.9 billion by food and food-product companies and $2.7 billion by the auto industry, and it accounted for 9% of magazines' advertising revenue and 1% of newspapers'. The A.M.A.'s proposed ban was immediately criticized not only by advertising and publishing-industry groups but by the American Civil Liberties Union and most First Amendment scholars, who believe that the proposal may be hazardous to the Constitution. "While the Government has an interest in preserving the health...
Some supporters of a ban believe the A.M.A. could strengthen its case by stressing that outlawing cigarette advertising is aimed at protecting minors. Critics of the tobacco industry scoff at its claims that cigarette ads are designed primarily to get smokers to stick with one brand or try another. "A rather small number of smokers switch," maintains Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard. "The big payoff is in getting people to smoke, and the fresh market is entirely kids." Cigarette advertisers counter that they do not promote directly to a youth market, that they do not use sports or entertainment...
...answer for the A.M.A. is not to ban ads but "to speak out more," says Attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist who has advised media and tobacco companies. "First Amendment theory says that if speech is troubling, we counter it with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal...
...their authority over the natural wonders of the U.S. In a big old touring car with Warren Harding in Yellowstone in 1923, Albright told the President he had sealed off the road and "it will be 20 miles before we see another soul." Harding joyously pulled out some chewing tobacco, cut himself a generous plug and rumbled toward Old Faithful, expertly spitting the juice over his shoulder and "neatly clearing the side...