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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesMARKETINGBattle for Young Minds
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- First came protests against Joe Camel, a raffish advertising
- character that has attracted teenagers to Camel cigarettes. Now
- furious grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars
- and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon
- series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for
- Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television
- and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the
- program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos
- during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to
- a commercial and would violate FCC rules that require the strict
- separation of advertising and entertainment fare.
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- The dispute flared shortly after Kenner Products, which
- makes the Savage Mondo Blitz ers line of action toys, said it
- will bow to protests against the gross-out figures by changing
- some of their names. Although such characters as Barf Bucket,
- Snot Shot and Bad Fart will remain on store shelves, they could
- become less irritating to parental ears.
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