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4 months agoCigarette companies themselves actually lobbied for cigarette commercials to be banned. For more information, look up “Knowing Better cigarettes” on YouTube since I’ll have to write an essay to explain why and he puts it way better than I can
To try to oversimplify: there was some law from the Clinton administration that said for X amount of ads for cigarettes, information for what cigarettes do to you must be aired as well (in the form of an ad). So, to kill 2 birds with one stone, they lobbyed and successfully got cigarette ads banned. This served to try and suppress potential competition outside of the big name brands and information for what cigarettes actually do to you. So, it was a 4D chess move done by the big cigarette companies collaborating with each other. I hope that makes sense