OT: Smokeless Tobacco

Butch Moore wrote on 9/8/2008, 2:26 PM

I should know this, but just want to be sure...

I have a cable commercial for a rodeo. Kayak Smokeless Tobacco is listed as a sponsor and a logo has been provided.

Is sponsorship advertising on cable TV legal for smokeless tobacco in the U.S.?

Anyone with experience with this would be great.

Thanks!

Comments

reberclark wrote on 9/8/2008, 2:52 PM

If you're the producer who puts the ad on cable (programs it) then this is a good question of which I don't know the answer. If you're the producer that the company wants to produce an ad - and then THEY do something with it, I'd say make the ad and take the dough.

ushere wrote on 9/8/2008, 4:53 PM

as a producer - if i questioned the legality, let alone the morality of half the the products / ideas i've been commissioned to produce, i'd be spending my days in a monastery begging forgiveness.

as reb. say's - take the money

leslie

DrLumen wrote on 9/8/2008, 5:38 PM

In April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on January 2, 1971.

Smokeless tobacco ads, on the other hand, remained on the air until a ban took effect on August 28, 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_advertising

Winston sponsored the Sprint Cup racing for a while but stopped in 2003. Not sure if there was a law banning it or they just changed their mind,

While these are from wikipedia, the dates sound about right. Check the FCC to make sure.