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A few comments: If advertising doesn't work, why would companies spend billions of dollars and pounds a year on it? Would you want to see young kids watching cigarette adverts with breakfast TV? It would be a slippery slope if advertising was unrestricted.
You can hypothosise (sp?) about where drivers would be if...until the cows come home, yes there is less money in the lower relms of motorsport at present - is that just connected to a lack of tobacco money? I doubt it. Is it more to do with the current funding sytems and strategies in motorsport at the moment? Probably. Is it also connected to a general downturn in most of the major world economies? Probably.
I think you're adding together 2+2, making 4 and assuming that it is the only answer to the question. There is little doubt that tobbaco money contributed hugely to motorsport, but things change and there will be new sponsors and the drivers who succeed will be those that provide a sponsor with an all round package and prove that they are worth the sponsors bucks. Interesting discussion.
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