Swiss vote to ban nearly all tobacco adverts
The Swiss yesterday voted to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous products, partial results showed.
Nearly 56 percent of voters and 15 of Switzerland's 26 cantons backed the near-total tobacco advertising ban, according to official results after all ballots had been tallied in 22 cantons.
Switzerland lags far behind most wealthy nations in restricting tobacco advertising -- a situation widely blamed on hefty lobbying by some of the world's biggest tobacco companies headquartered in the country. Currently, most tobacco advertising is legal at a national level, except for ads on TV and radio, and ones that specifically target minors.
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