Does this spell trouble for online cigar videos?

[HabanoSy]

Re: censorship - I've noticed that when watching the Music TV stations, it's perfectly okay to have ladies wearing not a lot making very suggestive moves or waving guns about showing at any time of the day with no requirement to put in my pin code. If I want to watch U2's video for 'One' featuring Bono smoking a cheroot I have to type in my pin code because it's classed as an 'adult' video. Crazy!

Rhiannon

Said it before, say it again...

Madness...!!!

Cheers, HabanoSy

[RhiannonBW]

Re: censorship - I've noticed that when watching the Music TV stations, it's perfectly okay to have ladies wearing not a lot making very suggestive moves or waving guns about showing at any time of the day with no requirement to put in my pin code. If I want to watch U2's video for 'One' featuring Bono smoking a cheroot I have to type in my pin code because it's classed as an 'adult' video. Crazy!

Rhiannon

[Stevieboy]

Ahhhh. So it was

[Big_T_UK]

Simpsons I think, but I was told it and I liked it.

[Stevieboy]

Don't get me started, I will get kicked off, filthy cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Is that a quote from South Park?!? I'm sure it's from a film I watched lately

[Big_T_UK]

Don't get me started, I will get kicked off, filthy cheese eating surrender monkeys.

[Stevieboy]

Yep, I am that anti-French, ask anybody that knows me.

But why? They've given the world so much!! Literature. Poetry. Romance. Culture. Law. Egalitarianism. That sort of feeling where you've been done something before. That thing you can't quite put your finger on....a certain...ohhhh... je ne sais quois??!?!

[HabanoSy]

Madness, once again...!!!

Cheers, HabanoSy

[cj121]

One would hope

that the purge is, as appears to be, upon direct advertising by the main tobacco companies, and not the likes of the aussie guys et al.

However, who knows where it could lead with the anti-tobacco lobbyists

[Habana-Habanos]

This is TOO far. There is beheading videos the internet, there is videos of sickos killing people on the internet there is MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than tobacco.

What world we live in.

[Burner]

I'll be putting an anti anti smoking rant on yotube this weekend for balance

[cohibaIV]

There is so much horrific stuff on the web... and this is what they want to ban?

Its a crime within its self...

[Big_T_UK]

Agree with much that you say above but remember, the example I use is the Australian lot who do run a big cigar retail company, in Australia. Although they talk about it regularly in the review videos it does not come across as a hard sell, at least to me. I would consider it would count as advertising though if looked at in the light of that report.

[captain duff]

In regards to the initial question having read closely the text of the report I would say no, not at this moment of time. It seems to be foccussing on advertising (direct or placement) specifically, so at this stage things like self-posted cigar reviews and the like should not be a part of this assuming the reviews are independant and not paid for by manufacturers.

However, as is often the case, this could be a thin end of a very large wedge. The real problem I have with studies like this is that no one advertises illegal drugs, and yet research constantly shows that nearly half the UK population has used them. So you have to ask why are these campaigners so hooked on continually hammering legal drug users (Alcohol Concern is another organisation that hugely cheees me off in this respect). In any case, fag companies these days have massive and rapidly expanding markets in the developing world and where there are usually no restrictions on advertising (and where the quality of the product is often questionable to say the least), but I guess western governments make easier targets for the health police.

Also, of course, this is an example of proposed web censorship which has a lot of ideological objections to it anyway.

[snooky]

Ive never smoked until recently, im in my fifties and at the end of my day i look forward to a Cuban , no one is going to tell or influence me otherwise it's all about choice and i know the same kids who smoked at school will look for another vice if ciggies are taken away .
Drugs aren't advertised, they are out there and do worse than smoke and booze together.