Body shape and body image

[Alexa]

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Ah, I see, very interesting.

In the UK cigarette advirtising is banned everywhere and we have just had a smoking ban in pubs, restaurants and all inside areas come into effect. Alcohol advertising is allowed everywhere - interesting that there is such a difference, must be a cultural thing.

Thanks for the info

[guekjian]

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Hi there! I am in Quebec and the smoking ban is now effective in all interior public spaces, restaurants, bars, etc... also!

[julirama723]

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I see alcohol ads on TV all the time! I don't think that's been banned.

[Lulubell]

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My error. I mistook a voluntary ban from the TV industry for a federal ruling. This is from the CSR Report for Congress on Federal Advertising Law, October 2005. Henry Cohen, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division:

Alcohol Advertising



Federal law does not prohibit the advertising of alcoholic beverages on radio or

television, but, since 1936 for radio and 1948 for television, the industry voluntarily

refrained from advertising hard liquor on radio or television.10 On November 7,

1996, however, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States said that it would

lift the ban, but that it had “drawn up 26 guidelines for the industry to follow –

guidelines that will avoid a younger audience but also allow this industry to compete

more effectively . . . .”11 The four major television networks announced at the time

that they would not air liquor advertisements.



Next, in December, 2001, NBC announced that it would accept liquor ads, but

imposed 19 rules to govern them, including limiting them to after 9 p.m E.S.T.,

requiring that actors in them be at least 30 years old, and requiring the liquor

companies to run social-responsibility messages on subjects like designated drivers

and drinking moderately. Then, in March 2002, NBC announced that it would no

longer accept liquor ads.



Tobacco Advertising



Advertising of tobacco products is restricted by the Federal Cigarette Labeling

and Advertising Act, which requires specified warning labels on all cigarette

packages distributed in the United States and on all cigarette advertisements within

the United States. The warnings must be rotated quarterly in accordance with Federal

Trade Commission regulations. The statute also prohibits advertising of cigarettes

and little cigars on any medium of electronic communications subject to the

jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission.12 This apparently would

include radio, and broadcast, cable, and satellite television.



In 1996, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) adopted a final rule

restricting the advertising of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products. The purpose

of the final rule “is to establish restrictions on the sale, distribution, and use of

cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in order to reduce the number of children and

adolescents who use these products . . . .”13 The rule did not go into effect,

however, because a federal court ruled that the FDA lacked the statutory authority to

restrict tobacco advertising.14 The Supreme Court later held that the FDA lacked the

statutory authority to regulate tobacco products at all.15



The FDA final rule would have restricted tobacco advertising in several ways,

such as by banning “outdoor advertising for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco,

including billboards, posters, or placards . . . within 1,000 feet of the perimeter of any

public playground or playground area in a public park, . . . elementary school or

secondary school,” and permitting other outdoor advertising, and advertising in

newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, only in “black text on a white background.”

It would also have prohibited any manufacturer, distributor, or retailer from

sponsoring “any athletic, musical, artistic or other social or cultural event, or any

entry or team in any event, in the brand name . . . , logo, motto, selling message,

recognizable color or pattern of colors, or any other indicia of product identification

identical or similar to, or identifiable with, those used for any brand of cigarettes or

smokeless tobacco.”

On November 23, 1998, attorneys general from 46 states, the District of

Columbia, and the five U.S. territories signed an agreement with the major tobacco

companies to settle all the lawsuits the states have brought to recover the public

health costs of treating smokers. (The four other states – Mississippi, Texas, Florida,

and Minnesota – had previously settled.) The settlement had to receive court

approval in each state before it took effect, but it did, and it has. It limits tobacco

advertising in various ways, including banning the use of cartoons, banning public

transit advertising, and limiting billboard and retail-store advertising.

[Fuschia]

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Just jumping in to point out that there is a difference between beer and the "hard" stuff. I think advertising the hard stuff was/is up to the television station in question. In my area, Central Texas, I see more ads for beer.
Because drinking a whole six pack of beer is better then having a single glass of wine, don't you know?

[sallyseachange]

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I hesitate to speak for women, but a man needs to have more parts than a brain and a finger.

Maybe, Labarum... if by then there is still a difference between the sexes! Perhaps by then, we'll be unisex blobs and computers will deal with what used to be all that old-fashioned hanky panky in the name of procreation... We'll only need the finger to press buttons and thus get our virtual, 3D, quadrifonic, ultrasonic thrills and chills.
Sounds very dreary, doesn't it?

[Labarum]

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I saw that possibility, Sally, but I discounted it - as you say impossibly dreary

[sallyseachange]

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I saw that possibility, Sally, but I discounted it - as you say impossibly dreary

Indeed! But... at least we wouldn't have to worry about body shape!