Talk:Nicotine marketing/Archive 1

Where are the pictures?
this page needs descriptive pictures and exaamples. perhaps displaying the changes in tobaccoo adertisements over time and the differences in international tobbaco advertisements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.1.99 (talk) 18:47, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Why has nothing been done?Research Method (talk) 23:16, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Have added what I could find on wiki commons.Research Method (talk) 04:58, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Date on US
The last ad aired on December 31, 1971, as the ban went into effect on January 1, 1972. I've changed the date. Mike H (Talking is hot) 16:29, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that - wondered where the slight confusion had come from and that clears it up. violet/riga (t) 16:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

NASCAR
I've added an entire section on NASCAR, and encourage you to expand/edit it and make it better. I have a decent knowledge of the NASCAR/Winston relationship, but my writing isn't the clearest, so if you can clean things up and make it more readable, please do! Thanks, Anorris 00:18, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's an excellent addition - thank you very much! violet/riga (t) 08:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! I replaced your Nextel Cup logo with the former Winston Cup logo.

US ads and cigars
The United States section needs to be changed a bit. Ads for cigars are still permitted on media outlets. --Tv&#39;s emory 06:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Advertising image at Image:1978 virginia slims ad.jpg
This image was tagged as lacking a fair use rationale, as it was uploaded long before whatever new procedures have been posted in recent months requiring more detail on the image description page. I've posted what I consider a valid rationale (for its use in Virginia Slims&mdash;I don't believe I've ever edited this article), but these days I am not on here very often, and so would appreciate any help from other current contributors to this article in making sure the rationale is substantial and detailed enough to fend off any misguided attempts to delete the image. Cheers, Postdlf 17:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 12:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Hawaii pro-smoking adverts in Japan
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/08/hawaii-unsure-h.html

Amusing and may be worthy of inclusion. violet/riga (t) 10:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Recent Strategies that should be Noted
l. From 1988 (75th anniversary of Camel brand) to 1997 the Joe Camel campaign, widely believed to be aimed at children, included hundreds of matchbooks published by the D. D. Bean company, each containing a joke about Joe Camel and his friends in the rock band, etc. It is well known that children avidly collect jokes. Conceivably this had the double objective of getting children involved with cigarettes and also with matches, which share with cigarettes the features of being a fire hazard and polluting (and 20 to the pack in US). More subtly, matches are more difficult to use than a lighter should one attempt to use a mini-toke utensil instead of a cigarette. The companies want above all to keep the smoking population addicted to the hot-burning overdose format now entrenched and prevent future smokers from using a "conservative" (less profitable) approach.

2. For decades slender cigarettes have been marketed, but almost always on the premise that they are for women. This serves to antagonize or intimidate men and boys who fear the stigma of effeminateness and will avoid a slender cigarette ("slimmer than the fat cigarettes men smoke!)" Fatter cigarettes tend to burn hotter and have a more addictive impact, advantageous to the industry profit margin.

3. Near the end of the Joe Camel era Reynolds introduced "Camel Wides", advertised as "smoother" like the Joe Camel character himself ("smooth character"). Likely their research indicated children would fall for this. It was withdrawn with the Joe Camel character under litigation pressure in 1997.

This year (2007) there is again an effort to promote "wide" cigarettes, again with the fallacious claim that they are "smoother" (Camel and Kool brands). The Camel ads read: "Big, fat and Delicious!" They run as an insert in free weekly papers read by youngsters including under 18.

Why would "wider" cigarettes burn hotter? Due to the larger lateral area the smoker will see more smoke escape unused unless he or she sucks harder, thus stoking up a higher burning temperature. A figure published decades ago for the burning temperature in the tip of a cigarette (you can look up the ref) is 1500 degrees F (860 C)--  seven inches from your trachea.

Please examine, and as needed source the above and consider ways to enter it in the article. The encyclopedia has a duty to provide not just history but protective warnings for the sake of children. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.3.5 (talk) 21:30, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Tobacco lobbying
I've removed the Tobacco lobbying link since there is no such page at Wikipedia. If one is created, the link should be re-established. 66.234.222.96 (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Stadium sports advertising
In American sports, spectators need to check the scoreboard to get information about what is going on in the game. For example, in basketball, the score frequently changes; in football, the down and yards to go changes on almost every play; while in baseball, the count changes with every pitch. Other information is often displayed, depending on the sport. Tobacco companies took advantage of this for many years and placed advertising for for their products in these high-profile places. During televised events, these ads also appeared to millions of spectators, including children, teenagers, and young adults, probably as an effort to entice them into picking up the habit. The article needs to add some information about this. 66.234.222.96 (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

History
This page needs to describe Tobacco advertising. At the moment it largely describes the limitations placed upon it.Research Method (talk) 05:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that's a great idea. Expand more on the actual subject of the article! :) ~Pip 08:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Barriers to Entry
The page doesn't mention that the ban on advertising in effect has saved the companies billions of doillars, simply because they cannot spend it on advertising, thus the ban is in a way beneficial to them. Also, as for barriers to entry, the ban on advertising in effect results in a closed industry that will not tolerate competition from new entrants. Why is this bad? The fewer the companies, the more profitable it is: allow more competition, and many will will go out of business. From an anti-smoking perspective, the industry needs to be diluted. 68.150.130.205 (talk) 01:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Getting Teenage Girls to Smoke -- one very effective attack on youth
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/getting-teenage-girls-to-smoke/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.165.11.154 (talk) 01:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

This page is completely twisted to make tobacco advertising seem like a good idea
Starting with history of restraints on tobacco advertising by the Nazis is the first but not the last or least.

Someone who isn't working for a tobacco company needs to completely rewrite it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.165.11.154 (talk) 01:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Or maybe it's just that the censorship of any company, so long as they're no lying, is wrong? --Kurtle (talk) 00:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Marlboro sport Advertising
Marlboro still advertise in Motorsport with their Barcode Logo - but it's not mentioned anywhere. (Not sure where to put it myself) --Kurtle (talk) 00:34, 8 June 2010 (UTC)