Article: Vendors see ban as a crippler Clinton's plan would have ripple effect

Melo-Tone Vending Inc. of Somerville, which operates about 1,500 cigarette vending machines in Massachusetts, says it may have to lay off 80 of its 100 workers if President Clinton's proposal to ban the machines is adopted.

"The president is going to destroy people like myself and he's not going to stop kids from smoking," company president Jack Kerner said yesterday.

Ackerley Outdoor Advertising expects another Clinton proposal restricting cigarette advertising to have little impact on its billboard business. Since 1987, the company has limited cigarette ads to 15 percent of its 2,400 billboards.

"I don't think his position will affect us," Ackerley president Lou Nickinello said of ...

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