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There are effective bans on advertising for certain products, e.g. cigarettes, in large parts of the globe.
by PeterStuer 7y ago
There are effective bans on advertising for certain products, e.g. cigarettes, in large parts of the globe.
- ghaff 7y agoWhich are acceptable because people generally (in many places), are fine with discouraging, or certainly not promoting, the use of tobacco products (and some other product categories) even though they're legal. This is not true with the usage and purchase of most other legal products.
- mLuby 7y agoThe irony is that, as with anti-smoking, massive ad campaigns would be necessary to convince the citizenry to favor a ban on ads. Time for "the ad to end all ads?"