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Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:21
A study has found YouTube is riddled with tobacco branding and imagery despite a ban on advertising in 168 countries. - read full story »
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Steffan
08 Sep 2010 4:12p.m.

Um, these look like historical texts to me (in the case of old cigarette advertisements, anyhow). No one is questioning that smoking causes health problems such as death, but the anti-smoking lobby are a bunch of neo-fascists who see society as a desperately fragile veneer that requires constant "fixing". Here's my message to ASH: stop wasting (tax?) money on flagrant BS (as you may or may not be aware the internet was created on principle of peer exchange - ie people will upload what they are interested in and once it's up, it's nuclear proof and the original source is nigh-on untraceable). Secondly, if you - a bunch of elitist, crusading, aging Baby-Boomers who probably couldn't even change the oil in their own automobiles - think we will allow YOU to define the standards for the share of digital information in an age that is reeling from the mistakes of YOUR generation... You are sadly mistaken.

Helen1
27 Aug 2010 12:28p.m.

The unregulated material on the internet is a positive attitude towards the individual wanting or citing that information and is not detrimental to all people so hands off SAM when it comes to laying laws down on peoples freedom to surf the internet at leisure.

stopwastingtaxpayersmoney
27 Aug 2010 1:57a.m.

What a waste of money. Shame on the government for funding someone to cruise youtube counting the number of times a brand name is mentioned. And what fabulous marketing and promotion, on TV no less, for Marlboro. This is a copycat scam simply repeating so-called research done with $351,000 of Australian taxpayers' money and reported last year. Someone should shut down this pyramid scheme of taxpayer funding for university types living in a totally parallel universe inhabited by oxygen thieves.

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