It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes.

Usually they advertised air travel or cigarettes or foreign cars.

A company spokesman said Philip Morris is not advertising smoking or cigarettes with the ads, just its corporate image.

It was my grandfather's intent to make the park facilities for the working people of Hartford, not to advertise cigarettes.

But as every sports fan knows, signs advertising cigarettes are easily visible during many game telecasts.

"When they're advertising cigarettes," he said, "showing those people with their white teeth, skinny, all happy, they don't tell the truth."

"People needed to express themselves," he explained, "so they advertised gas, cigarettes or worms."

"A typical school has five stores advertising cigarettes within a three-block radius," according to the report.

The women were concerned, however, that a local girl might be made to advertise alcohol or cigarettes.

He also supports a ban on signs advertising cigarettes and alcohol within 500 feet of all schools.