The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 28 Advertising

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Advertising: General

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In a survey of nineteen industrialized countries, the United States ranked next to last in

advertising restrictions, and last in level of excise tax.

SCARC, August 31, 1992

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Former Playmate of the Year and actress model Anna Nicole Smith was featured in a

full page ad in the October 1992 issue of Esquire. She posed seductively in a tight

dress half unzipped in front, and prominently displayed a cigarette in her right hand.

The ad was not for cigarettes or dresses; it was for Guess Jeans.

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Cigarettes are the second most promoted consumer product (after automobiles) in

the U.S. Cigarettes rank first among products advertised in outdoor billboards,

second in magazines, and sixth in newspapers.

1994 Surgeon General report, p. 160

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Cigarettes are the most advertised product on billboards, and the second most

advertised (behind automobiles) in the print media.

NEJM, April 7, 1994, p.976

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A million of the 3 million billboards in the U.S. advertise tobacco and alcohol products.

The tobacco industry is the number one spender for outdoor advertising. The intensity

of cigarette billboard advertising is 2.6 times greater in black than in white

neighborhoods in Columbia, S.C. and 3.8 times greater in Baltimore. Billboard ads

expose children repeatedly to pro-tobacco messages and give the erroneous

impression that smoking is pervasive and normative. (Billboard tobacco ads were

banned in April 1999 - editor)

Growing Up Tobacco Free, p. 112

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