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However, last November, LeRoy Collins, the former Governor of Florida and the current president of the National Association of Broadcasters, who has the reputation of being a maverick in the broadcasting business, made a speech before a group of broadcasters in Portland, Oregon, in which he suggested that, because of what he called mounting evidence that tobacco provides a serious hazard to health, broadcasters had a moral responsibility to consider taking corrective action against the televising of some types of cigarette commercials, notably those featuring well-known athletes and those expressly designed to influence young people

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They didn't want to be associated with any particular product line, and they didn't want to offend the people that were using a rival product