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Buzzyeah: The Internet: Final Frontier for Tobacco Advertising

  • jason · 1 year ago
    That Benson and Hedges sneaky-ness bit is amazing! I'd never heard about that!

    This post is a great resource Andrew.
    Thanks so much for writing this.
  • Sam Nam · 1 year ago
    I wonder what kind of research they put behind this subliminal advertising. Its scary to think how much we might be affected by it without knowing. I'm sure with their vast financial resources, they are benefitting greatly from their sly advertisements.
  • Andrew Meyer · 1 year ago
    There are so many sneaky/subliminal/clever/catchy cigarette ad stories out there. You could just go on and on.

    Don't want to give them too much press, but I just can't help but be intrigued. :)
  • Ferrari · 9 months ago
    Yeah, best thing they did to throw it out from formula one.

    One sneaky ad in my country is Hello from Rovinj (like Smoking factory says hello, but it says city name instead of Company name, but everyone knows that this town use tobacco.)
  • smooker · 8 months ago
    Interesting, thank you for posting
  • ronnan · 7 months ago
    For good reasons tobacco ads have been banned from media channels, we are all familiar with smoking effects on health. No matter how creative these ads would be the smoking risks remain, it's our choice whether we quit smoking or go with the ads.
    Ronnan, Drug Treatment
  • profuseness · 5 months ago
    I like it.

    thank you
  • Mark · 4 months ago
    We work in this dark market and I thought the article was really interesting. Seeing as our other major client market is alcolhol, perhaps you can pen how you see this market developing and how they will find ways to advertise...?
    M
  • Andrew Meyer · 4 months ago
    Mark, thanks for the holler. I visited your site and saw who your major alcohol client is and the geographic market you guys focus on. I'd love to hear odd restrictions (or call it opportunities to practice extra creativity) you guys come across in marketing alcohol. Shoot me an email at andrew AT buzzyeah DOT com.