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The device can be adjusted to simulate different way people smoke

It seems like a no-brainer to me that we cant continue to allow this. A California assemblyman proposed a ban on cigarettes with filters, but couldnt get the proposal out of committee

He said that when individual Code Authority members had suggested that the depiction of the act of smoking be abandoned in commercials, President Wasilewski intervened with the argument that such a proscription was premature, that it would drastically reduce the appeal of cigarette advertising, and consequently not be of benefit to broadcasters. The proposal for this restriction got nowhere

(Click on map to enlarge) New York is the highest net importer of smuggled cigarettes, totaling 58.0 percent of the total cigarette market in the state (a slight increase since last years edition of the report)