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VIRGINIA SLIMS You've Coughed Up Enough Phlegm Baby! Our Demands on Philip Morris * * manufacturer of Virginia Slims • Admit that smoking causes disease. • 90% of lung cancer victims are smokers. • 90% of throat cancer victims are smokers. • 90% of emphysema victims are smokers. • Stop pushing cigarettes on children. Yr~ • No more Virginia Slims sponsorship of m's tennis • No more advertising cigarettes as hIeti healthy, safe, sexy, or glamorous. • No more cigarette logos on candy cigarettes. • No more cigarette billboards in Shea and Yankee stadiums: • No more cigarette banners in children's video games. • No more race car drivers in Marlboro ads. • No more paying movie producers to feature teen heroess smoking._ • No more giving out free cigarettes at youth oriented concerts. • Stop selling cigarettes without health warnings to 3rd World countries. • Stop advertising cigarettes on billboards near schools and playgrounds. For more information, call Smokefree Educational Services, 212 912-0960

ASONS TO THROW ACCO OUT OF SPORTS 1. Cigarette companies associate smoking with healthy activities to place doubt in children's minds about the unhealthy effects of smoking. 2. Cigarette companies sponsor sporting events to create the illusion in children's minds that their favorite athletes endorse, play for, and use cigarettes. 3. Philip Morris, through its Virginia,Slims brand, sponsors women's tennis to deceive children about the unhealthy consequences of smoking. 4. Philip Morris places Marlboro billboards in Shea and Yankee stadiums to tell children that being an athlete goes hand in hand with being a Marlboro Man. = 5. Cigarette companies buy respectability by associating smoking with sports,. 6. Cigarette companies place billboards in sports stadiums that appear in the most frequently televised camera angles. This circumvents federal law which prohibits cigarette advertising on television. The Marlboro logo appeared almost 6,000 times in the recently televised Marlboro Grand Prix auto race. 7. Cigarette companies place ads in sports facilities because sporting events draw a large audience of young people. 8. Cigarette companies use sporting events to target youngsters because individual athletes refuse to.push cigarettes on children. 9. A giant billboard advertisement for a cancer-causing, addictive drug should not be the backdrop upon which this nation's greatest sports heroes perform. ~ 10. The Olympic Committee prohibits tobacco billboards in Olympic sports stadiums. Minnesota and Utah have rejected cigarette ads in their athletic stadiums. Dodger Stadium and Wrigley Field are tobacco billboard-free. 37 states do not allow Virginia Slims tennis. Please send letters in support of tobacco-free sports to: Betsy Gotbaum Parks.Commissioner ;y: Department of ~arks & Recreation, The Arsenal, Central Park New York, NY 10021 °~}: