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<text id=90TT2824>
<title>
Oct. 29, 1990: American Notes:Cigarettes
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 47
American Notes
CIGARETTES
Snuffing Out The Machines
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<body>
<p> The cigarette-machine industry may be going up in smoke.
Last week Pittsburgh and New York City weighed in with two of
the latest proposals to limit the use of the automatic vendors.
In order to prevent access by children, Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie
Masloff signed a new ordinance requiring that cigarette
machines use tokens that will be sold only to adults.
Meanwhile, the New York city council health committee
recommended that the devices be banned from most public places,
including such businesses as self-service laundries, gas
stations and fast-food restaurants.
</p>
<p> The current move against cigarette machines began last year
in White Bear Lake, Minn., which adopted a ban that was quickly
copied by other communities. The new flurry of laws could speed
the demise of what is an ailing industry: in the early 1970s,
machines accounted for 22% of cigarette sales. Today the figure
is a mere 3.5%.
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