US CIGARETTE ADS
December 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
PHILIP Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and US Smokeless Tobacco will remove adverts from classroom editions of US News and World Report, Time and Newsweek. In June, the National Association of Attorneys General, sent letters to the four companies asking them to scrap these advertisements, claiming they violated a no-youth-marketing agreement.
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PHILIP Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and US Smokeless Tobacco will remove adverts from classroom editions of US News and World Report, Time and Newsweek. In June, the National Association of Attorneys General, sent letters to the four companies asking them to scrap these advertisements, claiming they violated a no-youth-marketing agreement.
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