Move to Ban Ads for Cigarettes in Canadian City Fails
A city councilman’s attempt to ban tobacco advertising was extinguished when the council voted not to ask the Leader-Post newsapaper to stop running cigarette advertisements.
Joe McKeown’s rationale in presenting his motion Monday was that the newspaper’s policy should be consistent with the city’s anti-smoking views, since the Saskatchewan province city spends a lot of money advertising in the Leader-Post.
But publisher Jim Struthers said it is not his newspaper’s responsibility to ban tobacco ads, even if the motion had not been narrowly defeated.
Some other daily newspapers, including the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Kingston, Ontario, Whig Standard, have stopped carrying tobacco advertising.
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