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From: john@ur-tut.UUCP (John Gurian)
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Subject: AMA anti-smoking drive
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 21:39:24 EST
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I'm sure that people have been reading about the AMA's drive to ban cigarette
advertising in periodicals.  I have a feeling that they're out to raise
consciousness as much as anything else (supposedly they're trying to get
scenes with people smoking banned from movies, which seems pretty silly),
but I think it's a long-overdue effort, if only for publicity.  It does raise
some sticky questions.

First amendment rights on one hand must be balanced out against the fact that
the tobacco companies use the threat of withdrawal of advertising revenues
to keep periodicals from printing articles linking tobacco with health problems.
Any ideas/opinions on this?

				-- John Gurian
				-- University of Rochester School of Medicine