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AUDIO: Advertising syndicate weigh in on draft tobacco law 

The Lebanese Syndicate of Advertising Agencies and the International Advertising Association (IAA)) asked the Parliamentary Administration and Justice Commission on Wednesday to take their demands into consideration while discussing a law to limit tobacco smoking. The two associations said the draft law prohibited advertising for tobacco products and this would harm the advertising sector in terms of reducing employment and profits. They added that it would also harm merchants, restaurants, hotels and night clubs that sell tobacco.They then asked the commission to consider alternative steps in combating smoking, such as raising the price of tobacco products first then censoring tobacco advertisements and not abolishing them. They also demanded that they be kept included in all discussions

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