Tobacco advertising

Atlantic Dawn

We live in a country of a complete ban on showing a box of cigarettes for sale in a shop, candy cigarettes are banned yet a bread company can show at prime time or any time they want a billboard advertisement for a tobacco company, welcome to Ireland :mad:. "Players Please" :rolleyes:. Advertising Standards Authority my hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AoTmPKxHQ

puzzle factory

I don't think anybody under the age of 70 would spot that or even know what players are.

actuallylike

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

We live in a country of a complete ban on showing a box of cigarettes for sale in a shop, candy cigarettes are banned yet a bread company can show at prime time or any time they want a billboard advertisement for a tobacco company, welcome to Ireland :mad:. "Players Please" :rolleyes:. Advertising Standards Authority my hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AoTmPKxHQ

Took me 3 goes to find it (5 seconds in, top right). This is a ridiculous issue you have here. I have to ask are you really really upset about this? Honestly? If so, you must not be able to get out of bed in the morning with the hardships this world has to offer.

Atlantic Dawn

actuallylike wrote: »

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

We live in a country of a complete ban on showing a box of cigarettes for sale in a shop, candy cigarettes are banned yet a bread company can show at prime time or any time they want a billboard advertisement for a tobacco company, welcome to Ireland :mad:. "Players Please" :rolleyes:. Advertising Standards Authority my hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AoTmPKxHQ

Took me 3 goes to find it (5 seconds in, top right). This is a ridiculous issue you have here. I have to ask are you really really upset about this? Honestly? If so, you must not be able to get out of bed in the morning with the hardships this world has to offer.

My issue is we have all these bull$hit regulations and standards yet an abvert can fly along with no approval from these nanny state a$$holes and it has been running for about a month with not a word said. Personally in a shop I would prefer to be shown everything available onsale and find the whole regulation a joke.

Doodah7

Sigh... if it's possible for a poster to jump the shark, then you just have...

RobertFoster

I'd have more issue with the drony song tbh.

2 seconds of historical footage don't make it an advertisement for cigarettes. I don't think the passengers in the nun's car were wearing seatbelts - should we call the Gardaí, or Doc Brown and Marty McFly?

stevenmu

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

We live in a country of a complete ban on showing a box of cigarettes for sale in a shop, candy cigarettes are banned yet a bread company can show at prime time or any time they want a billboard advertisement for a tobacco company, welcome to Ireland :mad:. "Players Please" :rolleyes:. Advertising Standards Authority my hole..

This post mentions cigarettes twice, tobacco once, and names a specific brand. Event the thread title mentions tobacco. Should this thread be classed as an advertisement and banned ?

FloatingVoter

I thought it was a bullet did for Collins. Not 20 players.

krudler

there's a pub near me with loads of vintage tobacco adverts outside it, stuff like players and ancient brands of pipes and rolling tobacco, nobody cares though its not like seeing an ad for brands long out of existence will make you want to smoke.

coylemj

You can't rewrite history and trying to airbrush tobacco ads out of historical movie clips or photographs of Ireland of yesteryear would be plain stupid.

Have you ever watched an episode of Mad Men? That would really push you over the metaphorical cliff of righteous indignation if you ever did.