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NB, while tobacco ads are banned from TV, they are still everywhere on outdoor advertising, at least here in Germany. Actually, I went on a "street art tour" th

NB, while tobacco ads are banned from TV, they are still everywhere on outdoor advertising, at least here in Germany. Actually, I went on a "street art tour" that turned out to be sponsored by a cigarette company, and they were handing out free cigarettes. So: tobacco advertising is alive and well in Germany.

michh 12y ago
Oh, over here that's been banned as well. I thought it was an EU thing but I guess it was our government. They're even banned from sponsoring events.
- theGimp 12y ago
  That is the case in Canada too. Tobacco companies have been banned from sponsoring events since sometime in 2003.
hornetblack 12y ago
Australia is very different from that. They banned advertising to consumers in most ways. They still can put ads in magazines for retailers (because they aren't the end user). Now we also have "plain packaging laws" which means packets cannot have the Tobacco companies design on it. They must be olive green and have government anti-smoking ads, and the product name in plaintext.
moconnor 12y ago
Germany was referred to the EU court of justice for non-compliance with the advertising ban: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/868&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0... Germany also unsuccessfully tried to disarm the ban itself: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?text=&docid=66366&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=47825 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?text=&docid=66366&p...
hessenwolf 12y ago
Basically only here in Germany. I was so confused to see a cowboy ad at a metro stop.