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To the Editor: A study in Boston in 1988 showed that 11% of primary care physicians' offices visited were free of tobacco advertisements and that only 25% of the physicians interviewed were interested in cancelling subscriptions to magazines with cigarette advertisements.¹ In 1989, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates resolved to " encourage physicians to substitute magazines without cigarette advertisements for those with cigarette advertisements in their office waiting rooms."¹

Throughout the 1990s, as smoking among minors has increased, there has been an accumulation of evidence indicating that tobacco advertising targets young people and leads to an increase in consumption.^3-4 We thus sought to examine the extent to which pediatricians were following the recommendations to remove cigarette advertisements from waiting rooms.

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In 1999, we performed a telephone survey regarding magazines present in the office waiting rooms of pediatric practices in the Rochester, NY, area. Magazines recorded by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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