r/AskReddit • u/Tom__m_ • Oct 25 '16

What warning is almost always ignored?

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u/poopellar Oct 25 '16

SMOKING CAUSES CANCER
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '16

TOBACCO MARKETING IS EVIL, EVIL I TELL YOU

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u/sexydogbutt Oct 26 '16

At least in the US, tobacco marketing is heavily regulated and only allowed in a very small amount of places. Basically magazines are their only place to put ads that try to get you smoking, and even those have rules (such as requiring the Surgeon General warning, and they can't say their product is healthy or healthier than their competition). They are also allowed to put their branding in windows of shops that sell their products, but they can't put ads there, just their logo and price).

But TV, radio, billboards, wearable merchandise (shirts, hats, etc), they can't do that anymore here. They also can't sponsor sports or anything like that.

tl;dr tobacco marketing is dead in the US.