The Pro-Tobacco: Promotion category focuses on activities that encourage individuals to use tobacco products, such as advertising, marketing, sponsorship of events, and public information campaigns. It includes "responsible use" sites.
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- Emerging Tobacco Advertising and Marketing Issues Poster session from health conference focuses on recent trends in tobacco advertising including point of sale, tobacco-sponsored bars and clubs, and marketing to college age people.
- Filter Tips Newsletter covers cigarette advertising and promotion using billboards, clubs, events, charities, magazines, direct mail, auto racing, and examines use of brands, gimmicks, and money.
- Tobacco Industry Spends Record Amounts on Advertising and Promotion FTC report finds that the five largest cigarette manufacturers spent $8.24 billion on advertising and promotion in 1999, 22.3% more than the $6.73 billion they spent in 1998, and the most ever reported.
- Athletes in Cigarette Ads Athletes and sports figures in ads for cigarettes from the 1930's through the 1970's.
- Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures by Category FTC report lists the large variety of ways the industry promotes spit tobacco, from billboards to magazine ads, from point of sale ats to free samples, and from promotional offers to endorsements.
- Filter Tips: A Review of Cigarette Marketing in Canada Magazine format, from Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. Covers print, billboard, give-away, themed campaigns, and cigarette logos seen on TV sports.
- Tobacco Ad Gallery Searchable by country, company, brand, or type of ad.
- Growing Up Tobacco Free: Tobacco Advertising and Promomotion Chapter in an online book.
- Cigarette Advertising on TV Cigarette manufacturers were one of the first industries to advertise widely on television; article gives examples of shows and ads.
- Cigarette Advertising Student project examines the aims and means of cigarette advertising.
- Annual Report on Cigarette Sales and Advertising for 2001 Cigarette manufacturers spent over $11 billion advertising and promoting cigarettes in 2001, up 17% from the $10 billion they spent in 2000; FTC report breaks out spending.
- The Most Heavily Advertised Product in America From the Tobacco History Timeline, a concise section on cigarette advertising in America in the 1970's.
- Advertising Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents Brown and Williamson's cigarette advertising in the 1970s and 1980s, with a focus on product placement.
- Tobaccopapers.com Search, display, and download over 650 documents from the UK tobacco industry's main advertising agencies ranging from 1994 to 1999; also provides case studies drawn from the documents.
- India: A Doctor Takes on Big Tobacco "It's a huge market in India and South East Asia. Tobacco companies are also targetting youth between 15-25. Two countries where it will zoom up are India and Indonesia".
- New Study of Tobacco Retail Marketing Santa Clara University study finds tobacco industry marketing is giving small retailers more money to push tobacco products.
- Cigarette Advertising Six cigarette ads of the 1940's and 1950's, addressing concerns about smoking-related irritation to the nose and throat.
- Advertising and Promoting U.S. Cigarettes in Selected Asian Countries A look at global smoking promotional activities by U.S. tobacco companies; some activities said to be illegal, and some said to target nonsmokers and children. "James Coburn, Pierce Brosnan, and Robert Wagner starred in a series of TV commercials for Philip Morris' Lark brand Cigarettes in Japan."
- The Marlboro Man: The Making of an American Image Paper on the creation of the world's most popular brand, and its chief marketing gimmick: the Marlboro man.
- Filter Tips First edition of this e-zine review of tobacco marketing in Canada, published in 1998.
- Getting around Advertising Restrictions Humorous article by a filmmaker documents some new approaches to promoting product.
- Patterns of Tobacco Billboard Advertising Research reveals patterns of tobacco billboard advertising in a metropolitan region.