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> Cigarette companies are focusing their marketing on lower socioeconomic communities to retain their customer base, researchers say. > Advocacy groups say fun
by kardos 9y ago
> Cigarette companies are focusing their marketing on lower socioeconomic communities to retain their customer base, researchers say.
> Advocacy groups say funding for smoking cessation is dropping
It seems like an uphill battle to let the tobacco industry tell everyone to smoke, and then try and undo that with anti-smoking campaigns. Is there a reason we can't rein in or eliminate tobacco advertising?
- bdavisx 9y agoSeems to me like that's a Freedom of Speech issue.
- MBCook 9y agoYep. Short of making tobacco illegal or declaring it to be in a drug class that can't advertise to the public I'm not such there is anything that can be done except consent decrees.
- chc 9y agoCase law has established that commercial speech is not the same as other speech and is much more prone to restrictions.
- fjdlwlv 9y agoIs is reined in. No ads on TV, for example