The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 28 Advertising

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Advertising: Historical

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The 1971 congressional ban on broadcast cigarette advertising "effectively froze out potential new competitors by denying them the broadcast platform and put an end to the devastating anti-smoking ads then being broadcast under the fairness doctrine."

New Yorker, May 13, 1996, p. 43

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"Considering all I'd heard, I decided to either quit or smoke True. I smoke True."

1976 ad (New York Times, April 20, 1997, p. E3)

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A 1984 Kool Jazz Festival advertising blitz in movie theaters throughout the U.S. backfired because of bad publicity when the Kool ads ran prior to screenings of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The Cigarette Papers, p. 363

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A law passed in Utah in the 1920's banned all outdoor billboards, including those for cigarettes. It is still in force today.

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The first aerial tobacco ad was in New York in 1923, when the name "Lucky Strike" was formed in letters a mile high and six miles long.

Tobacco Advertising, p. 254

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