1. As part of the deal, cigarette billboards came down last fall, as they did in the three other pioneering states, Florida, Texas and Minnesota. 2. But eliminating cigarette billboards and undertaking aggressive anti-smoking campaigns could prevent the cancers before they start. 3. But for post-season play, the cigarette billboard will be replaced by one pitching Maxwell House coffee. 4. In Hyde Park, a cigarette billboard was one block away from a school. 5. Most cigarette billboards show white people exclusively. 6. Of course, if you drift too far a cop with a radar gun behind a cigarette billboard might reconnect you with your sense of place. 7. Remember the cigarette billboard that blew perfect smoke rings? 8. The current campaign, which parodies traditional cigarette billboards, will be over by the time any settlement is reached. 9. The idea behind the move was to reduce the amount of air time the cigarette billboard receives on television. 10. Therefore, the disappearance of cigarette billboards and an anti-smoking ad campaign, already begun in Florida and California, should make a difference. |