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Presents news briefs on the advertising industry as of September 2001. Decision by Tempus Group chairman and chief executive officer Chris Ingram not to accept a position within WPP Group; Plans for layoffs by J. Walter Thompson USA of Detroit, Michigan; Details of the "Truth" anti-tobacco advertising campaign by the American Legacy Foundation.

Reports that Crispin, Porter & Bogusky's Florida anti-tobacco campaign and its allocation of $146,000 in campaign funds for media outside the state may have put Florida's $11.3 billion settlement deal at risk. Details of the advertisements and how lawyers are looking at them; Terms of the settlement.

Reports on the anti-smoking campaign launched by Crispin, Porter & Bogusky for the American Legacy Foundation in 2005. Art directors of the campaign; Copywriters.

The article comments on the financial issues surrounding anti-smoking campaigns in the U.S. in 2003. Key issues discussed include sources of funds for the campaigns, the social significance of the campaigns and the implications of anti-smoking campaigns for health care costs and businesses in the country.

The article reports on Norway's approval of the National Anti Smoking Act which bans smoking in restaurants, bars, cafes and all public places and buildings where food and drink are served. The anti-smoking campaign is supported by an $8 million marketing budget. Advertising agencies handling the campaign are Keelmuyden Kiese and Virtual Garden.

The article presents news briefs related to the advertising industry in the U.S. as of June 3, 2002. Cisco Systems Inc. has awarded its advertising account to Grey Global Group's Grey Worldwide. Best Buy Co. has launched a national interactive brand campaign to promote DVD movies. Philip Morris USA Inc. will continue its youth-smoking prevention campaign despite the American Legacy Foundation's demand to pull the advertisement.

The article reports on the pressure on American Legacy Foundation's anti-smoking advertising campaign which has to succeed before its funding runs out. The six cigarette companies which have originally agreed to provide up to $1.5 billion over five years will continue to do so only if they maintain more than 99 percent of the U.S. market share. However, their market share is being eroded by independent tobacco companies which were not part of the original pact.

This article reports on the refusal of television networks in the U.S. to air the anti-smoking advertising campaign of the American Legacy Foundation. ABC and CBS turned down all the spots, while NBC was still evaluating the commercials. The campaign was created to catch the attention of adolescent viewers according to Anthony Farina, press secretary for Delaware Governor Thomas Carper. The foundation was formed as a result of an agreement tobacco companies reached with state attorneys general settling state tobacco lawsuits.

This article reports that British American Tobacco has persuaded South Africa's advertising self-regulatory body to ban a parody of its Benson & Hedges cigarette campaign. The parody, funded by an anti-smoking lobby called the Tobacco Action Group, was produced by one of the country's hottest creative agencies, Net#work. It mocks Benson & Hedges' ampersand effort, which is an extension of an international campaign executed locally by BLGK Bates. According to Mike Schalit, Net#work's creative director, its ad simply reiterated the warnings that cigarette manufacturers must print on their packs and ads. He claimed that the ruling is an infringement on commercial freedom of speech. However, Ian Shepherd, chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority, this case is not about freedom of speech but about the protection of intellectual property rights, which is an equally important freedom.

This section shows an image from a print advertising campaign for Glaxo Wellcome's Zyban anti-smoking treatment.

This article reports on a plan by the Tobacco Control Foundation to launch the biggest anti-smoking campaign in the history of the U.S., as of April 1999. Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire, who heads the 11-member foundation board, said she hopes to begin looking at advertising issues at a meeting set for May 27. The scenario for selecting an agency is not known yet. Gregoire said the foundation also needs to decide whether it will run a mostly national campaign, give grants to local governments for local campaigns aimed at the national target, or some combination of the two. The foundation was formed as part of the deal that tobacco makers reached with state attorneys general in November 1998. In the settlement, the industry agreed to provide $250 million for anti-tobacco programs this year and, starting next year, $300 million annually.

This article reports that cigarette marketers in California are launching a massive campaign to promote smoking restrictions. Proposition 188, an attempt to replace tough, local smoking restrictions and a statewide act with a watered-down policy, is likely to pass. And most of the credit goes to a slick media campaign run by Dolphin Group. The effort is mainly funded by the top cigarette marketers under the banner Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions. To sell Proponent 188, the campaign borrows the rhetoric of the anti-smoking movement. Having conceived the proponent, tobacco interests cannot afford to lose.

This article reports that the state of Mississippi is looking for an advertising agency to handle a $12 million to $15 million two-year anti-smoking campaign. Mississippi is the first state to settle a claim against tobacco marketers. The state's $15 million in advertising is part of a $62 million pilot program that was included in the $4 billion settlement Mr. Michael Moore, the state's attorney general, negotiated with tobacco makers. Since reaching the settlement, Mr. Moore has created a joint combination of state, health and public groups called the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi to run the campaign and offer grants for various anti-smoking programs. Mississippi settled its case shortly after Mr. Moore led state attorneys general in negotiating a $368 billion national accord on June 20, 1997, that anticipated congressional action. The national accord fell apart after health groups demanded greater concessions from tobacco companies.

Reports that Crispin Porter & Bogusky has won a $70 million anti-smoking campaign to be held in Florida. How kids will be the main focus of the advertisements in the campaign; Money received from the states legislature to help run the campaign; Details of some of the television advertisements; Features of the campaign's online site.

This articles stresses the possibility that the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton will seek the flexibility to increase the $500 million annual anti-smoking advertising campaign as of September 8, 1997 if initial efforts to reduce underage smoking fail. The deal that is being negotiated by state attorney generals and tobacco marketers requires tobacco companies pay up to $2 billion a year extra if underage smoking does not fall by 25% in the fifth and sixth year following the deal's approval. President Clinton is expected to get a staff recommendation on the tobacco deal and endorse it later. However, the U.S. Congress said that it would not be in position to fully consider tobacco before recessing in late October 1997.