alrighty so today i'm gonna be talking a
little bit about why cigarette sponsorship in advertising in racing and motorsports
is basically dead and why it died today i'm gonna be smoking a little bit of a basic red 100
enjoying that with y'all and talking a little bit about why as said there's no
more cigarette marketing and racing and stuff like that you know what i'm saying i'm saying
i think without further ado let's go ahead and get one of these out and let's go ahead get it
lit up and start talking you know i'm saying you know what i'm saying let's get it yes sir yes sir
basically the easy reason the easy reason for the majority of motor sports like nascar f1
anything moto gp kind of thing the majority of motorsports basically banned uh smoking
advertisements and smoking sponsorships except for one exception kind of thing and they they did
this because of pressure from anti-smoking campaigns and stuff like that that's to be
expected kind of thing nascar banned um uh smoking advertisements and smoking sponsorships in 2010
due to the family smoking prevention act by the fda and most races entered cigarette sponsorship
in the early to mid 2000s nascar was a pretty much pretty much a uh a pretty late adopter
i gotta be completely frank but there is one exception that i actually have already mentioned
previously in this video and i do apologize if i tricked y'all the exception is f1 so
basically f1 has been avoiding an overall ban since the 1990s people have been demanding an
overall ban for f1 since the over since this since the 90s kind of thing but there has just been
loophole after loophole after loophole which is not really surprised because about 10
of uh f1 marketing and stuff like that or like sponsorship and stuff like that for teams is
from cigarette sponsorships kind of thing over 100 million dollars a year
is from cigarette sponsorships which is just absolutely absolutely insane if you ask me it's
such a huge amount of money i can't even imagine seeing that kind of thing
however even though there wasn't an overall ban in f1 the ca that the team still had to uh go with if
whatever race track they were on kind of thing whatever race track they were racing on whatever
country they were in they still had to abide by those laws but for f1 as a whole there were no
really big laws kind of thing until 2006. in 2006 cigarette advertising was banned but sponsorship
was not now you guys might be wondering what's the difference well basically this just means
that it's just another giant loophole it's just another giant loophole now it just means that you
can't put the name of the cigarette brand on there like let's say with the with ferrari's f1 team
you couldn't put marlboro on there anymore because marlborough was a long time sponsor and still is
of the ferrari team um same with uh mclaren which uh that was british american tobacco they could no
longer put british american tobacco on there but they could put other stuff on there or they could
do something else or they could just continue sponsoring without putting anything on the car
overall but it was mainly used as a loophole the loophole and teams got around this in some very
very funny ways and i'm gonna have some sources in the description down below go check those out
of course because there are some very interesting sources and this information is very interesting
in my opinion some of the loopholes they got around and how they actually continued sponsoring
this stuff even after the rule change was by changing the livery of the car to match the
brand colors they just um like block the logo out or they just put the logo kind of thing without
the text they would do parodies so basically one car just had question marks where it would usually
be so everybody knew what they were talking about which is just so funny to me i think that's just
the most hilarious thing in the world that they just put question marks where the uh cigarette
advertising would usually be on the wing i just think that's the most hilarious thing in the world
i gotta be completely honest with y'all you know what i'm saying it's just like
the funniest thing in the world to me you know what i'm saying and those are just some of the
loopholes that's not even all of them there's going to be a resource down below with the
like top five loopholes or whatever i think it's pretty funny you know what i'm saying
some teams however have gotten in trouble some teams have gotten in trouble in recent years
because they continued accepting sponsorship money from marlborough and british american tobacco
and basically what happened is since marlborough and british american tobacco are now starting to
get into the vape market they started putting vape initiatives on the side of their cars
one of these examples is mission winnow which is basically a vape initiative um sponsored by
philip morris and a better tomorrow which is a british american tobacco who owns r.j reynolds
that is their vape initiative as well and both of these companies got in trouble for this
which is very amusing to me which is very amusing to me i gotta be completely honest because
there was very very little coverage that views got put on the side of a mclaren i can't say it right
now i'm mixing my words up y'all you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying there was a views
advertisement on the side of a mclaren f1 car and that got very little news coverage even though
like a year or two ago this was considered very controversial putting mission winnow and a better
tomorrow on the side of these cars was considered very very controversial putting views on the side
of a car is not considered very controversial which i find very amusing even though it is
just sponsored by rj reynolds which of course is owned by british american tobacco i do find this
very very amusing but it is very odd that it was not covered nearly as much as these other ones
but maybe i'm missing some part of the story i didn't really pay attention to story at that time
i just found out about it today you know what i'm saying and uh i just wanted to talk a little
bit about y'all about it with you all you know what i'm saying what's my opinion on this though
should cigarette advertising have been banned from f1 and sports as a whole well i suppose the
simple answer is to me as a cigarette smoker no i don't really think it should have i love seeing
cigarette advertising especially as a marketing major i think it's super super interesting and i
love i absolutely love seeing it you know what i'm saying i absolutely love seeing it um and i said
i'm gonna have all the sources to the resources i used in the comments or in the description
down below go check those out fact check me you know i'm saying you know what i'm saying
but basically i just think it's absolutely hilarious i just think it's absolutely hilarious
how these companies did this and how they managed to get around all these different like loopholes
and rules and all that sort of stuff i think it's very very amusing there's a couple of examples
of teams having an ad on one side of the car and then they have to cover it up for the next
race because the next country they're going to didn't allow that sort of advertising kind
of thing and i just think that's hilarious i just think that's absolutely hilarious
and i love it but my overall opinion is that while i wish we could still see cigarette marketing
in racing and in motorsport as a whole but it is understandable it is understandable why not
because well smoking and vaping and all of that sort of stuff is not very cool it's uh it's a
pretty dangerous i gotta be completely honest with y'all smoking a cigarette is very dangerous
as you guys can tell i am dying right now um you know i'm saying you know i'm saying i gotta be
completely honest with you i am dying right now because i'm smoking this you know what i'm saying
but but i would absolutely love i would absolutely love to see cigarette marketing
in racing and stuff like that again because i wasn't really alive during the era the the
prime area the 1970s to the 1990s the prime era of cigarette marketing and sports and i never got to
see it in person and i wish i absolutely wish i could have and i just think that would have been
like the coolest thing ever excuse me but sadly i wasn't alive during that era so it never happened
and that's a that's a shame i gotta be completely honest with y'all that's a shame
but it is what it is it is what it is i just think it's so absolutely funny
how these teams got around all these loopholes and all of that sort of stuff i just think it's
absolutely absolutely hilarious and i absolutely love that there were just so many loopholes now f1
has just absolutely refused to flat out banned cigarette sponsorships they banned they might
abandon the advertisement themselves but that just leaves it open to so many loopholes that give the
same point across and actually make light of it which i find absolutely absolutely hilarious and i
do apologize if there's any wind noise or anything there's a little bit of a breeze coming through
here right now so i do apologize you all know what i'm saying but i just think it's absolutely
hilarious and i absolutely absolutely love it and i just think it's one of the funniest things
in the world and this was one of my favorite topics to research i got to be completely honest
i put a little bit of research into this topic of course because i got to make sure
i get all my facts right you know what i'm saying i gotta make sure i get all my facts ranked
and this was probably one of my favorite things to research and talk to you all about
just because it's so funny it's so funny i gotta be completely honest with y'all like the simple
fact that just they they found all these different loopholes to get through this sort of stuff with
is just so funny to me and i absolutely love these companies are just mad lads let me tell you what
these companies are just mad lines complaints though this cigarette is absolutely absolutely
fantastic it is a beautiful beautiful day today cannot complain got about an hour till sunset
and it is currently like 85 with a slight breeze coming through here no complaints on my behalf no
complaints on my behalf it has been an absolutely fantastic day just recharged some ac today and uh
basically just been doing research to talk to you guys you know what i'm saying basically just been
chilling all day you know what i'm saying this is my first cigarette of the day though i gotta be
quickly honest it is currently like almost seven o'clock so i am running a bit late on my first
cigarette of the day but hey no complaints from me no complaints for me you know what i'm saying
i think i got one or two more hits left of the cigarette so i'm gonna go and take
those and then i'm gonna go in the video though because i pretty much talked about
everything i want to talk about i do want to know though i do want to know
i am very curious to find out what your guys's opinion is on this sort of stuff
so yeah that's y'all's homework you know i'm saying no i'm just kidding i'm not going to use
that joke that's that's an overused joke i'm sorry y'all but what is your guys's opinion on this
should cigarette sponsorship be banned in racing and motorsports and sports as a whole what do you
guys think about that should it should it not be if it shouldn't be or if it should be allowed why
if it shouldn't be allowed why do you guys think i'm curious to find out what you guys
think and uh i will try of course to read all of your guys's comments you know what i'm saying
i think without further ado though i'm gonna go and end the video here
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