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But now there are legislators considering a ban on every form of cigarette advertising and promotion. And the senior vice president of the American Medical Association, Dr. James S. Todd, is all for this. He told an April 2 forum on “Free Speech and Advertising,” held in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, that: “We want the public to be protected from those things that are known and observably dangerous.”
With me at the same forum was George Hacker, director of a group that would like to see the exclusion of all wine and beer advertising from radio and television. He sees his campaign in terms of “society’s right to protect itself and to preserve its health.”
It may well be that we common citizens are going to end up needing someone to protect us from our highprincipled protectors — and it is just this exigency that is splitting the liberal thinkers. Professor Steven Shiffrin of UCLA argued at the Boston forum that there’s a good legal precedent for legislation that will ban not only cigarette and beer advertising, but even such forms of corporate patronage by tobacco firms as donations to museums or the underwriting of TV shows for the
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