Day after day, year after year, you've seen countertop tobacco displays in convenience stores and grocery stores. In some States, they're still sitting right on the countertops. In others, they passed laws to keep them behind the counter, out of reach of kids. Either way, cigarette and chewing tobacco displays seem to be everywhere, and in full view. A quick show of hands, please — how many of you already knew that the stores get up to $100 per month for each countertop display of tobacco in the store? [Typically] I see that almost none of you knew this. Let's tell the truth today. The store managers don't put tobacco displays there because they think cigarettes is cool. Tobacco displays are there for only one reason — the store owners get paid money each month by the Cigarettes Online companies to keep them there. In recent years, the tobacco industry has spent a large share of its multi-billion dollar ad budget on these deceptive displays. Tobacco ads are no longer permitted on radio or TV, and there are less tobacco ads in magazines and newspapers. Tobacco billboards were removed in the late 1990's, as part of the settlement of the lawsuit by the States against Big Tobacco. In addition to billboards, Big Tobacco withdrew its use of promotional T-shirts and hats, which had turned many kids into little tobacco billboards.