Old Australian Product Advertising

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Originally Posted by chavez

This is a case of adding 2 and 2 together and getting 5.

There is no legislation banning incidental tobacco brand advertising from period TV footage. Lets not confuse the court ruling on contemporary news reports with period footage.

7Mate regularly broadcast rally and formula one documentaries without blurring the tobacco logos.

Channel 7 in Melbourne show Footy Flashbacks everyone Sunday prior to the AFL game and all the pre 1995 games shown tobacco advertising - never blurred.

Muscle Car Masters, also shown on Seven, showed tobacco sponsored cars - not blurred.

The only instance I can recall of tobacco logos being blurred was on Seven's Bathurst coverage last year - for reasons that still remain a mystery.

Conspiracy Theory Alert!!:

To add to the above, if you flick the TV on in Australia, you will find channels running old shows where smoking was a key part of the program. If "big tobacco" isn't involved in the background somehow promoting the use of these shows through advertising companies...I'll eat my hat!

Rant over