1.   Among other things, an uplifting message allows a billboard company to proclaim its devotion to the commonweal.

2.   And even without government restrictions, billboard companies are relucant to accept adds for tobacco or other controversial products.

3.   And, as a member of the MTA board, Hahn also was concerned by the actions taken by the billboard companies, Deputy Mayor Tim McOsker said.

4.   As Arnold considers its next move, AK Media is adjusting to life without tobacco ads, once the lifeblood of billboard companies.

5.   At this point, a billboard is a sheet of vinyl, which is often rolled up in a tube for shipping to billboard companies across the country.

6.   BLOW TO TOBACCO ADS ON BILLBOARDS Minnesota Mining, which runs the third-largest billboard advertising company, said it soon will stop taking cigarette ads.

7.   A billboard company turned down as tasteless a proposed advertisement for a talk radio show.

8.   Ad agencies, billboard companies and some sports events would suffer a lot more than the tobacco companies would.

9.   But, for now, health officials are relying largely on free public service announcements on television and radio and on space donated by billboard companies.

10.   Cafe Erotica, the Peach County, Ga. restaurant featuring nude dancers, and a billboard company, Sunshine Outdoors Inc., challenged the law.