The State - News from Nov. 25, 1986
A proposed San Francisco ordinance that would have banned cigarette and other tobacco advertising on billboards and city property such as cable cars and buses was defeated by an 8-2 vote of the Board of Supervisors. If enacted, the ordinance would have been the first of its kind in the country. Supervisors opposing the proposal objected primarily on grounds that federal laws restricting tobacco advertising would preempt the ordinance. In 1983, city voters approved one of the country’s toughest workplace smoking laws.
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