KOOL HIP-HOP CAMPAIGN RAPPED FOR LURING KIDS
BY TAMMIE SMITH

Kool cigarette packs featuring hip-hop and rap music images are being removed from store shelves after complaints from several states and a national anti-smoking group that the promotions target youth.

Officials at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., which makes Kool cigarettes, deny that the promotion violates the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement that, among other things, prohibits marketing cigarettes to underage smokers.

Nonetheless, the Louisville-based cigarette maker in a letter dated May 26 advised retailers to remove "Kool Mixx" special-edition cigarette packs from shelves and set them aside for return.

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