Time Inc., 'Newsweek' Selectively Ban Tobacco Ads

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NEW YORK 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 Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General. “I want to applaud Time and Newsweek for joining this effort and helping to remove tobacco advertisements from the school library editions of these magazines.”

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