Letter: Economic dangers of tobacco subsidies

Monday 01 February 1993 00:02 GMT

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Sir: Tobacco advertising bans 'have led to rise in smoking' (report, 30 January). Banning all tobacco advertisements should therefore appeal to cigarette manufacturers and satisfy anti-smoking campaigners. Why not implement the ban and make everyone, with the possible exception of the advertising industry, happy?

Yours etc,

BRIAN MAURER

Department of Cardiology

St Vincent's Hospital

Dublin

30 January

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