The threats to ban tobacco advertising on cars are not as potent as they seem.
This led them to ban the advertising of Marmite to children: Marmite is basically yeast boiled with salt.
Many critics, including Steven Rattner in the NY Times recently, have written about the potential unintended consequences of the lifting on the ban on advertising.
Last year, Google introduced a ban on advertising from essay-writing firms.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has called for a ban on advertising for cosmetic surgery and said that it preyed on women in a vulnerable state, such as following a divorce.
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On the other hand, America was one of the earliest countries to ban tobacco advertising on television, and has some of the world's strongest laws to protect non-smokers from involuntarily inhaling smokers' fumes in public places.
It says it has not seen any evidence that would support calls for an outright ban on advertising to children, but will listen to concerns as part of its commitment to "providing a safe environment in which children can engage with ads and ensuring ads are prepared responsibly".
In November 1997 the Government was about to exempt Formula 1 racing from its election promise to ban all tobacco advertising.
That includes a ban on tobacco advertising and on smoking in public places, plus more help for anyone who wants to quit smoking.
Britain, which is already one of the world's heaviest taxers of smoking, last month went ahead with a full ban on tobacco advertising.
But other vote-catching manifesto promises - including a ban on tobacco advertising and the relaxing of licensing laws - are likely to be left out.
In June last year, a British Medical Association report called for a junk food advertising ban and rules governing the nutritional balance of school meals and pre-prepared food.
Birnbaum further suggested that the environmental and health harm that big soda has caused makes it worthy of its own advertising ban, comparing it to the cigarette industry.
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Last April, the New York Times reported, a new law was passed that requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift the ban on mass advertising of private offerings.
Two years ago, the European Court of Justice ruled that a tobacco advertising ban on the grounds of health was a matter for national governments and not for the European Union.
Britain has stood apart from the move in many other western democracies to increase public funding of political parties, relying instead on limits to campaign spending and a ban on paid advertising.
The contract is understood to reflect Honda's concerns about the future of the team in the context of the possibility of a global tobacco advertising ban being introduced within the next couple of years.
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At the ministerial meeting in May it is expected to seek the right to opt out of any clauses that it finds unacceptable, such as the ones imposing an advertising ban and a minimum size for health warnings on cigarette packs.
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed bills that would eliminate the advertising ban, raise the investor threshold to 1, 000 from 500, and remove restrictions on so-called crowd-funding (when entrepreneurs raise money from relatives or others who aren't SEC-accredited, within certain limits).
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But Jonathan Fell, at Morgan Stanley, says that gradual and uneven implementation means that it may be a long time, if ever, before the treaty affects the leading firms though it may eventually drive smaller players to the wall if the advertising ban deprives them of the, er, oxygen of publicity.
In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency, described as a food watchdog, wants to defuse the so-called obesity time bomb and is considering such methods as a ban on TV advertising aimed at children, health warnings on foods high in salt, sugar and fat, and requiring school vending machines to offer healthy alternatives, according to press reports.
Indeed, the Supreme Court recently overturned a federal ban on commercial gambling advertising on radio and television.
Entrepreneurs today operate under a general ban on soliciting or advertising for capital.
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But legislators are beginning to consider the need--and state provisions have been attempted to ban or discourage food advertising in schools.
The tough measures include a proposed ban on all tobacco advertising in newspapers and magazines across the European Union, as well as in those intended for the EU market.
So, while a ban on junk food advertising on children's television was introduced in 2007, youngsters can now spend hours playing online games featuring many of the same brands.
Is it that there's now a ban - or shortly will be a total ban - on tobacco advertising in Europe, so you can use the tobacco sponsors if you go elsewhere?
Others have warmed to the Greens agenda: its demand for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan, its opposition to the monarchy, an end to mandatory detention for asylum seekers, a ban on junk food advertising and a lowering of the voting age to 16.
The food fight over what do about obesity is heating up on both sides of the Atlantic as British official are mulling a ban on some television advertising aimed at children, and U.S. officials are considering whether to classify obesity as a disease as opposed to a condition, which would open the door to insurance coverage paying for treatment.
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