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Many local leaders say that's why it's time to turn up the heat on cigarette advertising.
They propose a ban on all outdoor tobacco advertising within a two-mile radius of Kansas City's schools and play areas. Lanka Burns Rs. A Day Sri Lanka Daily News Sri Lankans spend over Rs. 50 million a day on smoking and most of them are from poor families whose monthly income is less than Rs. 2,000. Minister S. B. Dissanayake told journalists that many poverty alleviation schemes launched in the past failed as designers of those programs did not realise the central cause of the problem. . .