Sentences with phrase «banning cigarette advertising»

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Tobacco manufacturers once had relatively free reign, with even doctors starring in commercials, on the airwaves before being banned from television and radio advertising in 1970 when President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.

In mid-1988 Canada passed laws that ban all tobacco advertising and require cigarette packs to carry a detailed warning of the dangers of smoking — warnings that far exceed those in the United States.

So, because cigarette advertising is banned from the air, the Marlboro Cup, an authentic sporting event, remained simply The Cup on CBS air.

But I also believe in freedom, and as long as cigarettes remain legal I find it incomprehensible how a political party that says it also believes in freedom can decide to ban the manufacturers from putting their company logos or advertising slogans on the packaging.

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

Rather than advertising the harmful effects of cigarette smoking on the box, why hasn't any government just banned the selling of cigarettes in their respective countries?

Sold by the major multinational tobacco and other companies, the devices are aggressively marketed in print, television and the Internet with messages similar to cigarette marketing in the 1950s and 1960s, even in the U.S. and other countries that have long banned advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products.

March 12, 2002 Cigarette ads target youth, violating $ 250 billion 1998 settlement Despite an explicit ban since 1998 on directing advertising at children, U.S. tobacco companies selectively increased youth targeting in 1999 and 2000 report researchers from the University of Chicago.

It was gradually established that smoking prevalence could be reduced by raising the tax on cigarettes, and by banning tobacco advertising.

He thinks advertising of cars should be banned, just like it was for cigarettes in most of the world.

Cigarette companies universally supported the ban on advertising cigarettes as it freed up enormous amounts of money that had been previously spent on advertising and related activities.

Radio and television advertising of tobacco products has been banned in the United States since January 2, 1971 when the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act took effect.