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by robobro 1065 days ago
Plenty of creative people smoke, drink, and engage in other vices. I'm not confident that any significant number of cases that people smoke in media is due to funding from big tobacco. When I would light up on stage and drink some beer during house shows, as a musician, I know I wasn't getting any funding for it. Do you have any articles about big tobacco paying authors, screenwriters, game designers, etc to include cigarettes in their content?

What about capnolagnia (smoking fetish) films and photos -- is the smut industry getting paid off by big tobacco?

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> I'm not confident that any significant number of cases that people smoke in media is due to funding from big tobacco.

I’m fairly confident that much of it is, that spending on it is systematically not properly disclosed to the FTC, and that approximately 100% of the cases outside a documentary or newd cobtext involving a recognizable brand are paid (in cash or otherwise) product placement, the last bit the same as with non-tobacco brand placement, and the rest as has been documented through 1994 by internal tobacco documents compared to FTC reports, with no sudden shift after 1994 that would indicate a behavior change.

“newd” -> “news”, wasn’t aiming for a portmanteau of “nude” and “lewd”.