Remember when cigarette commercials were banned from television in the early 1970s? And later, other forms of cigarette advertising were banned. Wouldn’t it be nice to ban political ads? After ...

The U.S. Public Health Service reported last month that cigarette consumption had dropped 1.4 billion (from 572 6 billion) in the 1967-68 fiscal year, and that 21 million Americans kicked the habit.

If cigarettes were as irritating as cigarette commercials, the nation might turn to chewing tobacco. Last week the advertising and sales weekly Tide polled 2,200 advertising executives for their ...