Top Magazines to Keep Ads Out of School Copies

Tobacco ads in school library editions of Time, Newsweek, People and Sports Illustrated magazines will be eliminated under an agreement.

The deal between publishers and states attorneys general follows a 2003 agreement by publishers and tobacco companies in which tobacco ads were banned from classroom editions of the magazines.

The agreement -- necessary, officials say, because school libraries often don’t subscribe to the classroom editions -- provides for “selective binding” of those editions beginning this summer.