Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tobacco advertising

Tobacco advertising is the advertising of tobacco products or use typically cigarette smoking by the tobacco industry through a variety of media including sponsorship, particularly of sporting events. It is now one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing. 

Some or all forms of tobacco advertising are banned in many countries. Tobacco companies have had particularly large budgets for their advertising campaigns. They also have banned sale of tobacco to underage people in an effort of cracking down on early age smoking. 

However, buses and notably trams never took off their tobacco advertising until a few years later. Kent, Marlboro, Double Happiness, and Camel all featured prominently on them. Advertisements that appear within the tobacco industry,

Tobacco smoking is still advertised in special magazines, during sporting events, in gas stations and stores, and in more rare cases on television. Some nations, including the UK and Australia, have begun anti-smoking advertisements to counter the effects of tobacco advertising.

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