That's interesting, but obviously they meant 'in places where it has been banned a long time', there being countries where that's not the case doesn't stop it b

That's interesting, but obviously they meant 'in places where it has been banned a long time', there being countries where that's not the case doesn't stop it being an example of this, that terminology/marketing sticks around outliving a point it might've been making. The EU (incl. UK at the time) banned it 2.4 decades ago.