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Billboards made the news in America when, in the tobacco settlement of 1999, all cigarette billboards were replaced with anti-smoking messages.
I am from Ohio and I drove past one of these barns every single day until I moved. I bet it is still there, advertising chewing tobacco. Clearly not all of them were replaced and I can find you a counterexample on 56 in October when I drive back to Athens. B5429671 ( talk) 09:59, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Under laws, needs a section on constitutionality. Billboard bans are censorship of political speech.
they raise issues under the first amendment and under state constitutions. also, when existng billbords are banned, this raises issues under the taking clause of the 5th amendment.
maybe i'll write this up someday. i made a few notes: i wonder whether there have been cases on whether these bans violate their state constitutions. bans on billboards, books, tshirts, etc., raise serious constitutional issues. https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/courts/2017/04/03/memphis-judge-throws-out-state-billboard-act/99984504/
https://www.acluak.org/en/press-releases/aclu-alaska-fighting-your-free-speech-not-billboards
50.90.158.23 ( talk) 17:46, 27 September 2019 (UTC)robbin stewart, gtbear@gmail.com