1. How does Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley hope to achieve a ten percent reduction in smokers without a ban on tobacco ads? 2. Although tobacco ads are prohibited, companies get around the ban by sponsoring music shows. 3. As Arnold considers its next move, AK Media is adjusting to life without tobacco ads, once the lifeblood of billboard companies. 4. A magazine read by young gay men and a San Francisco newspaper for homosexuals have already adopted policies against accepting tobacco ads. 5. Clinton proposed the sponsorship ban as part of a sweeping attack on teen-age smoking that includes a prohibition against cigarette vending machines and new restrictions on tobacco ads. 6. Clinton rejected the idea that strict limits on tobacco ads would curb the constitutional right of free speech. 7. Even if hooking teen-agers was not the intent of the tobacco ads, the companies have ample evidence of the effect. 8. In addition, publications with high youth readership could use only black and white text in tobacco ads and brand-name sponsorship of sporting events would be banned. 9. In December, the Health Ministry said it would bypass the court decision by introducing new legislation to restrict tobacco ads. 10. It would also bar store owners in those areas from placing tobacco ads on store doors, awnings and windows. |
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