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It's interesting that no-one mentioned Formula 1 in here. F1 was one of the biggest industries to embrace tobacco advertising, and indeed was exempt from sever
by GeneticGenesis 8y ago
It's interesting that no-one mentioned Formula 1 in here.
F1 was one of the biggest industries to embrace tobacco advertising, and indeed was exempt from several tobacco advertising laws in the UK. The Ferrari F1 team still takes sponsorship from Philip Morris International (the company that owns Marlboro), and indeed at the start of this year, the Ferrari team was named "Mission Winnow Ferrari". Mission Winnow is Philip Morris' project looking for Tobacco alternatives. Read: Vaping.
As @satori99 mentioned however, Australia has very strong advertising laws when it comes to tobacco, so as the first race is in a few weeks, the Mission Winnow branding was removed from the Ferrari as it was revealed that the Australian authorities had launched an investigation: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/141908/ferrari-removes-mission-winnow-logo-for-australia https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/141908/ferrari-removes-mis...