Mass Media | Regulating Tobacco Ads Protects Children

Mr. President, I rise today to announce legislation that would amend the Internal Revenue Code to deny tobacco companies any tax deduction for their advertising and promotional expenses, when those ads are aimed at America’s most impressionable group, children.

This bill addresses a key element in our ongoing public debate on tobacco: industry’s ceaseless efforts to market to children. My legislation can stand on its own, or can easily be incorporated into a comprehensive tobacco bill.With or without Congressional action on the state attorney generals’ tobacco settlement,...

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