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by pessimizer 525 days ago
> Much like the FTC in the US bans tobacco and alcohol advertising that could be interpreted as encourage underage use.

This is an advertising regulation for actual specific products, not a general restriction for things redolent of things that are bad for children.

In the same year, they made it legal to advertise Oxycontin on television, direct-to-consumer.

> branding for those products.

French suited playing cards aren't advertisements for gambling. Gambling isn't a product. Gambling at Bally's Casino is a product.