ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 TAG: 9609240071
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
Philip Morris will pull Marlboro ad in Atlanta
WASHINGTON - Philip Morris Inc. agreed to pull a billboard for Marlboro cigarettes from Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium after the Justice Department charged the ad was an attempt to skirt a ban on televised cigarette advertising.
The disputed billboard will be taken down after the defending world-champion Atlanta Braves play their last home game of the regular season Monday night, the Justice Department said. The agreement guarantees that television viewers won't see the billboard during Major League Baseball's coming playoffs and the World Series, if the Braves make it that far.
The Atlanta billboard flap is an outgrowth of a broader Justice Department assault last year on cigarette billboards in sports arenas and ballparks where they might be seen by TV audiences. The department charged that the billboards represented an effort to get around the 1971 law that banned cigarette ads from the nation's airwaves.
In June 1995, Philip Morris and the government reached an agreement that called for the company to remove billboards from easy view of television cameras in 14 football stadiums, five basketball arenas, and 14 baseball parks.
- Bloomberg Business News
Coal production climbs slightly
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Domestic coal production rose slightly to 21.4 million tons during the week ended Sept. 14 from 21.3 million tons the week before, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.
The U.S. coal industry produced 21 million tons in the same week last year.Virginia mines produced 742,000 tons during the survey week, up from 653,000 tons the previous week and 725,000 in the corresponding week of 1995.
.- Associated Press
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*Packard Bell Electronics Inc., a personal computer manufacturer, has named Comprehensive Computer Solutions Inc. of Christiansburg one of its authorized service centers.
The company is one of two authorized service centers in the New River Valley and Roanoke Valley market, CCS said. That means it is authorized to perform both warranty and non-warranty hardware repairs and service work.
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