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Anti-smoking group calls for industry to show advertising costs  

TOBACCO companies should be forced to publish their spending on advertising and promotion, a city charity has said.

Anti-smoking lobbying group ASH said since billboard advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products was banned in 2003, large organisations have found other ways of selling their brand.

Chief executive Sheila Duffy said the Scottish Government should take steps to monitor the spending to prevent the number of new smokers in the country.

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