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(01:24) Like the national broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC, which fought against Congresss proposed ban on TV and radio cigarette commercials in 1969 (a bill sought by the tobacco companies to halt the impact of anti-smoking ads that had been mandated by the Federal Communications Commission in 1967 as the result of a lawsuit by attorney John Banzhaf III asking for an application of the Fairness Doctrine to counter unopposed cigarette advertising), The New York Times and other print media corporations long resisted entreaties to stop accepting cigarette ads

Affection song from the album Affection is released on Oct 2015

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