ANA, AAAA, AAF Send Letter to Senate HELP Committee

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee plans to mark up legislation tomorrow that would impose extremely burdensome, onerous and clearly unconstitutional restrictions on tobacco advertising.  Changes to the bill have completely failed to respond to the serious defects in regard to advertising regulations that were contained in the legislation that Senator Kennedy introduced in February.  It still contains proposals that legal experts from across the political spectrum have determined are unconstitutional.

To make the committee aware of these numerous serious constitutional infirmities, ANA, along with the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the American Advertising Federation, has sent a letter to the HELP Committee calling on the Committee to reject these proposals.  We believe these proposals would create very dangerous precedents for the whole advertising and media communities.  Our letter can be viewed after the jump.