The sanctions include retailers to require cigarette buying customers to furnish proof of age if they appear to be younger than 27. Banning most cigarette vending machines, and promotional items at sporting events including tobacco logos on hats and T-shirts. The restrictions placed on print and billboard advertising crosses the line. Teen smoking is a problem that needs to be dealt with, just like teen drinking. Smoking advertisements have been banned from television for years, placing restrictions on further forums of advertising violates the industries right to advertise a perfectly legal product.
People tend to be blurring the realities of their situation.
It's not like smokers don't know any better. Cigarettes have carried the Surgeon Generals warning ever the since law started requiring it back in 1964. If anything, the industry can seek solace in the fact Gov. Pete Wilson doesn't seem too concerned with all this anti-smoking mania sweeping the country. Wilson has cut funding for anti-tobacco advertisements. On top of that, a critical anti-smoking ad was pulled after the tobacco industry threatened to sue.