City Property Affected If passed, the bill would give New York one of the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the nation.

When I was New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in 1993 and 1994, the city passed several tough anti-tobacco laws to limit teen-agers' access.

Australia is set to introduce new plain-packaging measues - believed to be the world's toughest anti-tobacco laws - which will ban logos and branding on cigarette packets from later this year.

From 1990 to 2010, the league was referred to as Copa Mustang, due to a contract with Protabaco, a tobacco industry that produced Mustang cigarettes (that ended in 2010 due to an anti-tobacco law).

Already, the Magny Cours Formula One race and the motorcycling Grand Prix at Le Castellet have fallen victim to the country's strict anti-tobacco laws.

The L.P.G.A. lost the du Maurier Classic, a major championship that was played for the final time in August, because of sponsorship problems caused by anti-tobacco laws in Canada.

And since then, many other states and local governments have caught up to New York's anti-tobacco laws.

Marlboro was the Toyota GT-One sponsor in 1999 (hence the white chevron with red body livery) although there was an anti-tobacco law in France which meant no Marlboro logos appeared on the car anywhere.

Speculation suggested that as the design is reminiscent of a cigarette package, the team would be in violation of strict anti-tobacco laws in Canada and would be unable to use it at the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix.