UK Underground Bans Book Ad
An ad that features the cover of Martin Amis' latest book, Experience , has been banned by the London Underground because it depicts a young Amis, way beneath the legal age for enjoying tobacco, smoking a cigarette. Vintage, Amis' publisher, pulled the image and replaced it with a text ad
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