Ravenwood - 08/26/05 12:00 PM
The Tennessee AG is trying to intimidate a country singer into not using tobacco products on stage. He claims that it amounts to advertising tobacco to minors, something forbidden under the tobacco settlement.
State officials said Gretchen Wilson can be seen on concert jumbo screens pulling a can of Skoal from her pocket while performing her new song, "Skoal Ring."By the way, all of my Tennessee readers be sure to check out Cohiba brand cigars. Nothing says cool, like Cohiba.That may violate the 1998 settlement between states and tobacco companies forbidding tobacco ads targeting young people, Attorney General Paul Summers said.
"Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts," Summers wrote in a letter he sent to Wilson Thursday. "Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use."
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Not everything is advertising, and people are running the word where it doesn't go.
Here's the test : program material _attracts_ audience, advertising material _repels_ audience.
An enterprise balances the two so that there's enough audience to sell ads for, but not so much advertising that the audience leaves.
In the case of the country smoker, I imagine, the smoking is part of the act, and so draws audience, and so is not advertising.
Ridiculous; don't those jackasses have anything better to do with their overpaid time?
They should try going after some criminals for a change.
I would think the parents should be responsible for making sure their children don't use tobacco products. Wait, wait, we are in the New America, where nobody is held accountable for their own actions. And the goverment is supposed to raise our kids through banning everything.
I like Padron 4000's myself, the only problem is my humidor is empty. :^(
Posted by: Derek at August 26, 2005 4:34 PMI've never encountered an AG at any level of government who wasn't scum.
It must come from having to enforce all that unconstitutional (a fifty dollar word for illegal) legislation.
Posted by: Brett at August 26, 2005 5:21 PMActually Virginia's former AG and gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Kilgore, is a staunch conservative. He's also written numerous favorable opinions about the enforcement of Virginia's gun laws, and time and time again he's come down on the side of individual liberty and freedom.
Posted by: Ravenwood at August 26, 2005 6:11 PMGood heavens. What would they have done to the
manufacturers/distributors of candy cigarettes back in the day?
Are the tobacco companies paying for Gretchen Wilson's performance in any way? If not, it's not advertising.
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