http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/advertising.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/02/09/montreal-champix-ads.html http://tobacco.org/news/333546.html Ads that subtly promote the smoking cessation drug Champix are popping up in downtown Montreal, but the campaign is raising concerns after a recent study linked the drug to heart problems. The drug, manufactured by Pfizer, is the subject of three Health Canada safety advisories. The warnings involve reports of possible adverse reactions including depression, hostility, and increased risk of suicide. . . . The ads in question feature the words “I did it!” on a green background with the drug’s website tagged underneath. In Canada, as long as an ad doesn’t specify the disease or condition a drug is supposed to treat, it’s legal, even if the drug has been flagged for review by Health Canada. In the U.S., stricter advertising standards prohibit Pfizer from using the same marketing for the drug. Complies with regulations In an emailed statement, Pfizer said the ads comply with all federal regulations. "The campaign was also reviewed and approved by Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) as part of their pre-clearance service," the statement reads. CBC News Canada Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/cricket-australia-pulls-tobacco-ad-20120207-1r27u.html http://tobacco.org/news/333471.html Cricket Australia has pulled a mouth freshener advertisement amid complaints it promoted a company that also sells tobacco products. It says it will withdraw the ads that were displayed on the boundary rope during seven matches between Australia and India after learning they could be promoting tobacco. Spokesman Peter Young said Cricket Australia had sought a translation of the ads, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, from the Indian government and had been reassured that they promoted mouthwash. But the majority of Indians who saw the ad would immediately associate it with tobacco, said Dr Nevin Wilson, who heads the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease's Southeast Asian office in New Delhi, India. Dr Wilson said direct or indirect advertising of tobacco products was illegal in India, where there were 900,000 deaths each year related to tobacco. AAP Australia India Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/cricket-chiefs-duped-by-smoky-ads/story-e6freuzi-1226264136337 http://tobacco.org/news/333455.html CRICKET Australia has banned an advertising campaign which appeared in the recent Test series against India after discovering they may have unknowingly been promoting a tobacco brand. The sport's governing body faces losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue after pulling the ads from future one-day games. The Health Department launched an investigation into the Hindi advertisements on the boundary rope for Australia-India Test matches in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide. The ads for a company that makes chewing tobacco and mouthwash were aimed at the massive TV audience in India. They also featured at the twenty20 games in Sydney and Melbourne and were due to be shown during the on- going one-day internationals this month. Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph PHOTO@DAILYTELEGRAPH.COM.AU ( Phillip Hudson The Daily Telegraph) Australia India Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/cricket-chiefs-draw-line-on-ads/story-e6frea8c-1226264387016?from=public_rss http://tobacco.org/news/333454.html CRICKET Australia will surrender hundreds of thousands of dollars in boundary line advertising after it emerged it may have been illegally promoting tobacco. The snap backdown last night came after the federal Health Department launched an investigation into advertisements in Hindi on the boundary rope for Australia-India Test matches in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. The ads for a company that makes chewing tobacco and mouth-wash were aimed at the massive TV audience in India. Adelaide Now -- The Advertiser and Sunday Mail Australia India Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://labs.yougov.co.uk/news/2012/02/06/whats-okay-advertise-tv/ http://tobacco.org/news/333436.html Cigarettes, gambling, payday loans, abortion providers, prescription drugs and debt finance solutions should not be allowed to be advertised on television, say the majority of British adults, but other potentially controversial subjects, such as alcoholic drinks, political parties, fast food and laser surgery providers should be allowed to advertise in this way, our poll on the issue has found. * 79% say that cigarettes shouldn't be allowed to be advertised on television YouGov wut@fakeemail.net ( Hannah Thompson and Bonnie Gardiner in Consumer and Editor's picks ) UK Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://tobaccoreporter.com/home.php?id=498&art=5540 http://tobacco.org/news/333435.html Television propaganda that graphically communicates the serious harm caused by tobacco use was likely to be effective with smokers in low- to middle-income countries and could be readily translated and adapted for local use, according to a story in The Hindu. This was one of the key findings of a recent survey conducted in 10 countries where the non government organisation, World Lung Foundation, was working as part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Smoke. However, the survey noted that the effectiveness of advertisements with complex medical terms or metaphors, or those that featured personal testimonials was more variable. Tobacco Reporter Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jZupzjWbVPc9xZtleG1Pt-nzQnZw?docId=CNG.013c9d26e5bc6771d8e4bb78654007fe.c1 http://tobacco.org/news/333416.html Cricket Australia has pulled Hindi adverts displayed during the series with India after being alerted that they could be promoting tobacco, which would attract big fines for breaching local laws. Cricket bosses said they were assured by the Indian government that the signage was advertising a brand of mouthwash, but decided to take them down due to their apparent similarity to a brand of chewing tobacco. "We asked (the Indian government's) advice because we are not familiar with the Hindi language," a Cricket Australia spokesman told reporters on Tuesday. "They came back and said it's an Indian mouthwash -- or at least they said it's not a tobacco product. We don't have one million percent certainty about all of the detail. Agence France Presse Australia India Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://sydney-central.whereilive.com.au/news/story/sydney-street-magazine-sparks-interest-of-cancer-council-tobacco-advertising-watchdog-ash/ http://tobacco.org/news/333411.html IT has been many years since tobacco advertising was banned in Australia, which is why multiple images of people smoking and multiple editorial references to smoking in street magazine, The Spitpress 07, have peaked the interest of Cancer Council-affiliated action group, ASH. Based around the ``editorial theme of smoke”, The Spitpress 07 magazine contains the word smoke in six headlines of its 48 pages. The cover image is a man with a pipe in his mouth. The vox pop question is ``Why do you smoke?”. One article is about a photographer who shoots women smoking, and comes with the headline ``Come on kids, die young”. Another article features artwork, with the headline ``Inhale the pain’’ with artwork named ``Smoke gets in your eyes’’ and ``Breath in the fumes”. A cooking article refers to switching off domestic smoke alarms. The magazine is bulk-dropped around the inner city and Sydney Uni, NSW Uni, through Bondi, Randwick, Darlinghurst, Glebe and Newtown. ASH spokesman Stafford Sanders said a tobacco company’s marketing department could not have better-designed an association of smoking with youth culture. ASH has referred the magazine to state and federal health departments to investigate any potential breach of Tobacco Advertising Prohibition laws. ``Our concern is that the whole theme appears to be smoking,’’ Mr Sanders said. ``The magazine has been found where it could easily be read by children, whatever the intentions of the publishers.” Managing editor of The Spitpress, Tym Yee, said there were no funds from the tobacco industry in The Spitpress. Sydney Central Australia Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/cricket-chiefs-draw-line-on-ads/story-fn7x8me2-1226264134453 http://tobacco.org/news/333382.html CRICKET Australia will surrender hundreds of thousands of dollars in boundary line advertising after it emerged it may have been illegally promoting tobacco. The snap backdown last night came after the federal Health Department launched an investigation into advertisements in Hindi on the boundary rope for Australia-India Test matches in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. The ads for a company that makes chewing tobacco and mouth-wash were aimed at the massive TV audience in India. They also featured at the Twenty20 games in Sydney and Melbourne and were due to be shown during a series of one-day internationals this month. Melbourne Herald Sun hudsonp@heraldsun.com.au ( Phillip Hudson * From: Herald Sun ) Australia India Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thehindu.com/health/policy-and-issues/article2863601.ece http://tobacco.org/news/333369.html Television advertisements that graphically communicate the serious harms of tobacco use are likely to be effective with smokers in low- to middle-income countries and can be readily translated and adapted for local use - this was one of the key findings of a recent survey conducted in 10 countries where the non government organisation World Lung Foundation contributed as part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Smoke. The survey, however, noted that advertisement with complex medical terms or metaphors, or those that feature personal testimonials, are more variable and require more careful pre-testing and adaptation to maximise their potential. "In order to test the comprehension, acceptability, and effectiveness of advertisements that emphasize the harms of second hand smoke exposure, especially on children (to the extent of getting smokers to quit) and increase awareness of the harms of second hand smoke exposure (and smoking) among both smokers and non-smokers, we conducted the survey," noted a release issued by the World Lung Foundation. The aim of the study was to assess the comprehension, acceptability and potential effectiveness of five television advertisements in communicating an anti-smoking message and motivating cessation among adults in low- and middle-income countries. . . . As part of the study, 2,399 smokers aged 18- 34 years in 10 low to middle income countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam) viewed and individually rated the same five anti-smoking advertisements The Hindu Online web.thehindu@thehindu.co.in (Bindu Shajan Perappadan) Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/cricket-australia-in-tobacco-ad-row-20120207-1r27u.html http://tobacco.org/news/333355.html Cricket Australia is facing fines of up to $66,000 for displaying ads in Hindi at the Test cricket series against India that may have been promoting tobacco. News Ltd reports Cricket Australia has decided to pull the ads, surrendering hundreds of thousands of dollars in income. The federal Health Department has launched an investigation into the ads in Hindi on the boundary rope for Australia-India Test matches in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. The ads were for a company that makes chewing tobacco and mouthwash and aimed at the massive TV audience in India. AAP Australia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=715433 http://tobacco.org/news/333305.html The ads may be difficult to watch, but American Cancer Society Community Mission Manager Jason Warchal says they do get people's attention. "If you do smoke, if you do use tobacco, these are the consequences of it," says Warchal. "Many people are diagnosed daily with lung cancer and other types of deadly diseases that are attributed to tobacco use." According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, about 300 people die from lung and bronchus cancer in Onondaga County each year. Many of those deaths can be prevented. Leave your comments below or join the conversation on our Facebook page. What do you think? CNY Central jcain@cnycentral.com (Jessica Cain) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.examiner.com/cigar-in-tampa-bay/general-cigar-kicks-off-super-bowl-weekend-style http://tobacco.org/news/333304.html General Cigar will be the toast of Indianapolis this weekend, with sampling events that are on par with the Big Game itself. In fact, two of the three events that General Cigar is participating in have been named to BleacherReport.com's highly-publicized ranking of the "10 Best Parties of Super Bowl Week." According to Alan Willner, General Cigar's vice president of marketing said, "General Cigar has long been known for associating our brands with high profile events that elevate the cigar smoking occasion. This year, we'll once again be at the best parties leading up to the 'Big Game' to bring the ultimate cigar smoking experience to A-list athletes, celebrities and football enthusiasts." Last night's Jaws Cigar Party was hosted by none other than Ron Jaworski at Nicky Blaine's cigar bar in downtown Indy. This fundraiser benefitted Ron's pet charities -- Jaws Youth Playbook Foundation and Gleaners Food Bank's BackSack program. . . . Tonight (Friday, Feb. 3) is the SPP Sports Poker Tournament to be held at the Indianapolis Zoo. General Cigar will be on hand to sample Punch, Grand Puro and Grand Cru cigars to event hosts Devin Hester, LeSean McCoy. Other noteworthy names expected to attend are Patrick Warburton (Rules of Engagement) and Quinton Aaron (The Blind Side) and a slew of NFL greats. Stay tuned for more info. Saturday night is the big Rolling Stone party at the Crane Bay event center. To celebrate Bacardi's 150th anniversary, General Cigar has teamed up with the premier rum brand and will serve La Gloria Cubana and CAO La Traviata to a roster of A-list guests. Examiner.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16853251 http://tobacco.org/news/333245.html Appeal judges have rejected a bid by a major tobacco firm to challenge Scottish government plans to ban the open display of cigarettes. They turned down the challenge by Imperial Tobacco which claimed the measures were beyond the legislative competence of Holyrood. Lord President, Lord Hamilton, sitting with Lord Reed and Lord Brodie, ruled on the matter. The government measure had been delayed pending the court case outcome. BBC Online UK-Scotland Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.acs.org.uk/en/info/document_summary.cfm/docid/DF54B046-D6CE-45A1-A26F1E1785899FC2 http://tobacco.org/news/333198.html Introduction 1. The law on the display of all products containing tobacco and the display of tobacco prices in England is changing. 1 2. From 6 April 2012, new law will affect large shops selling tobacco products (other than specialist and bulk tobacconists). All other shops and businesses selling tobacco products (including bulk tobacconists and specialist tobacconists) will be affected from 6 April 2015. . . . 7. The aim of this guidance is to explain the requirements of the new law so that both businesses and regulatory officers are helped to implement it successfully. It also suggests practical steps that retailers can take to prepare for the start of the new law. This guidance has been written by the Local Government Regulatory Support Unit with the Department of Health; the British Retail Consortium and the Association of Convenience Stores also contributed to its development. . . . While deliveries are often made "behind the scenes" with products being unloaded directly into storage areas that are not generally in public view, in many small shops deliveries have to be taken through the public area of the shop. Depending on the nature of the outer packaging, it is possible that a technical breach of the display law may be made if deliveries can be seen by customers while they are being taken through the public area of a shop. Retailers must take steps to keep any such display to a minimum. Tobacco products should be removed from sight as soon as possible and deliveries should not be left on open view for any longer than is necessary to move them to a storage area. . . . Staff members collecting goods to make up online orders should only display tobacco products for as long as is necessary to take the items out of the gantry and add them to the order. Tobacco products must not be visible to customers while being carried around the shop after being placed in a crate or trolley. ACS UK Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT