A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the deduction for advertising or other promotion expenses with respect to sales of tobacco products unless the taxpayer pays for a certain amount of advertising on the health effects of smoking.
Smoking and Health Advertising Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow an income tax deduction for tobacco and tobacco product sale promotion expenses.
Defines "tobacco and tobacco products" as any small cigarette, large cigarette, cigar, pipe tobacco, tobacco that can be rolled into a cigarette, or smokeless tobacco product, including snuff and chewing tobacco.
Permits the deduction if the taxpayer's expenditures for advertising informing the public of the health effects of tobacco product use exceed five percent of the sales promotion expenses in question for a given taxable year.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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