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"It took 20 years before the Advertising Law was amended. It may take another 20 years if we fail to include an explicit tobacco advertising ban in the law this time."

Wu Yiqun, deputy director of the Beijing-based non-government organization ThinkTank Research Center for Health Development, said tobacco advertising has a huge negative psychological impact on the public, especially on teenagers. Wu called for tobacco advertising to be fully outlawed because the draft amendment to the Advertising Law failed to explicitly stipulate the ban.