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announced it's dropping the shades-wearing promotional character that consumer groups complained attracted children to smoking. The change came in the wake of the tobacco industry's proposed national public-health settlement, which forbids use of cartoon characters or human images in cigarette advertising.

RJ Reynolds announced it's dropping the shades-wearing promotional character that consumer groups complained attracted children to smoking. The change came in the wake of the tobacco industry's proposed national public-health settlement, which forbids use of cartoon characters or human images in cigarette advertising.