Lithuania stomps out tobacco ads
May 20, 1999
By Paul Beckman
VILNIUS - The Marlboro Man is a powerful image. The rough and tumble cowboy, with a cigarette in his mouth and horse under his rear, appears prepared to handle anything thrown at him. And although his native United States has subjected this and other tobacco icons to a series of head slaps and eye pokes in recent years, the smoker-friendly shores of Lithuania seemed a safe haven - a place where the Marlboro Man and his buddies could always ride free. But times change and the Lithuanian Parliamen ...
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