The country has received accolades for the World Health Organization and anti-smoking activists for his campaign.

But despite these successes by the anti-smoking activists, , the tobacco companies still have huge potential markets.

Why are anti-smoking activists who used to decry the industry's failure to make a safer cigarette now so bitterly opposed to its sale?

"Now they should see that they are on the wrong side of the fight," said one anti-smoking activist.

One anti-smoking activist, however, was not displeased.

The dispute is the most recent in a series between anti-smoking activists and the cigarette makers whose products they demonize.

But she complained that tobacco companies were continuing to influence event organizers to keep anti-smoking activists out.

One answer given by anti-smoking activists is that smokers are hooked and don't have so free a choice; 90 percent have tried to quit.

An ex-smoker whose father died of lung cancer, Turlington is an anti-smoking activist.

His younger brother, Adam, is an anti-smoking activist.