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Detroit, Michigan, USA; aholm1@hfhs.org

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In a surprisingly little noticed move, the US National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) last year successfully requested that four major tobacco companies cease placing advertisements in the school editions of several news magazines. Magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report publish special editions for use in school classrooms, and these editions can be modified from those published for general distribution. Newsweek alone distributes over 300 000 copies to schools for use in school libraries and social studies classes.

The issue was brought to the attention of Vermont attorney general William Sorrell, who chairs NAAG’s Tobacco Committee, by a group of eighth graders (aged 13–14 years) from Plainfield, Vermont, who found that 120 ads for tobacco products were placed in the magazines between January 2002 and June 2003. Phillip Morris, Brown & Williamson, US Tobacco, and RJ Reynolds agreed to remove the ads in . . . [Full text of this article]

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