Newsweek, Time Cut Tobacco Ads

Newsweek and Time Inc.’s Time, Sports Illustrated and People have agreed to eliminate tobacco ads from copies distributed to grammar, junior high and high schools, according to the New York attorney general’s office. “This is a major success in our continuing efforts to reduce the marketing of tobacco products to children,” said New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer. In ’03, the U.S. Attorneys General reached an agreement with several tobacco companies to eliminate their ads from special “classroom” editions.