Guardian and SF Weekly sell cigarettes to little girls

SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann likes to think his paper is superior to the corporation-owned SF Weekly---and vice versa, no doubt. But they evidently agree on one thing: taking advertising money from R.J. Reynolds for Camel No. 9, the new pink-packaged cigarette Reynolds is marketing to girls and young women:

At a Senate hearing last month, Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown held up a Camel No. 9 ad that was mailed to smokers' homes. "It strains the imagination to think this campaign is aimed at anybody other than 15, 16, 17-year-old girls — something that's pretty morally repugnant," Brown said.

Pick up the current issue of either the Guardian or SF Weekly, and out pops a 7x9 card that replicates the look of the new Camel No. 9 cigarette pack.