Tom the Dancing Bug - Thursday May 28, 2015 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Those sneaky TOBACCO COMPANY WEASELS or "Stupid cigarette advertising tricks" In 1969, congress banned the advertisement of cigarettes on television. TV: cigarettes are fun! They like to dance. Over the years, cigarette companies have devised a strategy to circumvent this prohibition, First they establish and instantly recognizable logo by using the adverting venues that remain legal. Then they carefully place billboard bearing the logo where TV cameras are likely to pick them up, The tobacco industry defends this television broadcast of their advertising images as merely "incidental" Jackson going back back back...that ball is gone! But the latest innovation is especially insidious. On the set of a popular talk show, a logo fragmentis surreptitiously placed in a model cityscape behind the host. Some sort of subliminal effect is apparently intended, Also on the program, our good friend Marv Albert! When the host moves to his desk to interview guests, another mock billboard displays the entire logo. we can assume the tobacco company responsible would call the broadcast of these images "incidental" But incidental to what is unclear. And one can only guess as the identity of the brilliant and evil profiteer who masterminded the unholy alliance, Larry Bud Melman: HA HA HA HA

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