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- NATION, Page 47American NotesCIGARETTESSnuffing Out The Machines
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- The cigarette-machine industry may be going up in smoke.
- Last week Pittsburgh and New York City weighed in with two of
- the latest proposals to limit the use of the automatic vendors.
- In order to prevent access by children, Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie
- Masloff signed a new ordinance requiring that cigarette
- machines use tokens that will be sold only to adults.
- Meanwhile, the New York city council health committee
- recommended that the devices be banned from most public places,
- including such businesses as self-service laundries, gas
- stations and fast-food restaurants.
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- The current move against cigarette machines began last year
- in White Bear Lake, Minn., which adopted a ban that was quickly
- copied by other communities. The new flurry of laws could speed
- the demise of what is an ailing industry: in the early 1970s,
- machines accounted for 22% of cigarette sales. Today the figure
- is a mere 3.5%.
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