tobacco advertising ban!
Discussion
What is the problem with advertising tobacco?
Why do we need a world wide ban?
Is it not discriminating againt tobacco companies?
I cannot think of any other legalised product that is banned from advertising.
(other than speed of course!)
Surely people are free to make their own decision about buying tobacco. I do not smoke and never have, and I do not see a problem with adverts for tobacco.
Why all the fuss? What next...beer? Sweets? Pies?
They see, certaintly on racing cars, that Tobacco sponsorship as glamourising smoking for kids.
The fact of the matter is somewhat different though I think. Kids smoke, not because of what adverts they see but because of peer pressure or because they think it makes them look cool. The latter however is not because of racing car sponsorship or adverts but because of the fact that tobacco is deep rooted in society. Whats the general last request for a man about to be executed in films - exactly!
Added to which you have to work to become a nicotine addicit, you have to get past that stage of coughing and spluttering because the smoke shouldnt be in your lungs.
Banning tobacco advertising has probably done nothing towards stemming the uptake of smoking, but then nor do the speed kills adverts and they are still forced upon us.
Matt. (who reckons he's paid for at least 1 sq mm of the marlboro sign on the back of the ferrari in the last 10 years)
The fact of the matter is somewhat different though I think. Kids smoke, not because of what adverts they see but because of peer pressure or because they think it makes them look cool. The latter however is not because of racing car sponsorship or adverts but because of the fact that tobacco is deep rooted in society. Whats the general last request for a man about to be executed in films - exactly!
Added to which you have to work to become a nicotine addicit, you have to get past that stage of coughing and spluttering because the smoke shouldnt be in your lungs.
Banning tobacco advertising has probably done nothing towards stemming the uptake of smoking, but then nor do the speed kills adverts and they are still forced upon us.
Matt. (who reckons he's paid for at least 1 sq mm of the marlboro sign on the back of the ferrari in the last 10 years)
So if the enforcers are trying to take the moral high ground then surely they should ban tobacco appearing in all public forums, which would include films and TV.
Most kids pick up tobacco at school. Non of my friends or family friends' kids (aged between 8 and 16) watch motor racing, and I'm pretty sure they did not get the idea from the back Sato's Jordan!
Another example of people with 'power' using it on the wrong issues.
Most kids pick up tobacco at school. Non of my friends or family friends' kids (aged between 8 and 16) watch motor racing, and I'm pretty sure they did not get the idea from the back Sato's Jordan!
Another example of people with 'power' using it on the wrong issues.
Thankfully not - no! 
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