| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
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| International: Hong Kong |
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| Although based in countries with long-established television advertising bans, the |
| British and American cigarette companies strenuously fought against Hong Kong's |
| proposed (and successful) ban on television tobacco advertising by orchestrating a |
| sophisticated political lobbying and disinformation campaign, which -denied the |
| health evidence -denied any effect of advertising on consumption They took out |
| full-page newspaper advertisements showing, for example, a heavy hand across the |
| front of the television obliterating the screen with the heading "Soon your favorite |
| programs could be missing from television," failing to mention that this had not |
| happened anywhere else in the world where advertising bans had been implemented. |
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| In Hong Kong, the tobacco industry attacked journalists who wrote articles on |
| smoking, claiming to their editors "the use of pictures of cancerous lungs clearly |
| attempts to suggest, without any foundation, that the disease was caused by smoking, |
| and is highly irresponsible in its appeal to emotional and sensational instincts." |
| The Doctor-Activist, Ellen Bassuk, Plenum Press, 1996, p. 43 |
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| Philip Morris in Hong Kong in opposing advertising restrictions maintained that |
| "tobacco advertising is the cornerstone of any free democracy." |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Judith Mackay) |
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