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{{quote|''"These days the government won't even allow cigarette manufacturers to advertise on television. Instead all you see are those public health commercials in which smug ten-year-old girls order you not to smoke, to the point where you want to rush right out and inhale a entire pack of unfiltered Camels just for spite."''|'''[[Dave Barry]]''', Dave Barry's Bad Habits}}
Since the early 1970s, the law has prohibited tobacco products from being advertised on television in the United States. The tobacco companies didn't fight this, since they knew if they went to Congress, there was a good chance they'd lose their [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111051133/http://www.badvertising.org/ print ads] as well.
This all changed as the result of a class-action lawsuit against Phillip Morris, which now calls itself Altria. As part of their settlement, the tobacco companies agreed to fund anti-smoking [[Public Service Announcement|public service announcements]].
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