When was smoking advertising banned

The courts prohibited the use of these and similar descriptors in cigarette packaging and advertising. The act banned the use of vending machines and product sampling except in adult-only facilities , and it restricted the sale of tobacco in retail establishments to face-to-face transactions between retailers and consumers. It also expanded the existing limits on tobacco brand sponsorships and tobacco branding of non-tobacco items.

Topic Tobacco Industry Marketing. Subtopic Marketing. More in tobacco industry marketing. Virtually all tobacco advertising is now prohibited in the UK and many other countries.

All tobacco brand advertising and displays of tobacco products at the point of sale have been prohibited since April In addition, from 20th May , cigarette and hand-rolling tobacco packaging will become standardised which means that all the attractive, promotional aspects of tobacco branding will be removed and the appearance of the packs will be standardised, including the colour of the pack.

See the ASH law guide for further details. This includes sponsorship of large sporting events. Although tobacco advertising has been banned in the UK, there is concern about the way smoking is portrayed in films, on television and online, as avenues for further tobacco marketing. Tobacco companies also heavily target women and girls through TAPS. Studies show that both direct advertising and indirect promotion and sponsorship approaches increase the likelihood of people beginning or continuing tobacco use.

Such approaches also mislead the public by depicting tobacco as no different from any other legal consumer product, thereby increasing its social acceptability.

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