Is smoking banned on TV shows?

Answer 1

Tobacco advertising, one must emphasize, advertising, has been off TV since about l975 in Toto- Cigarette advertising much longer ( Piper, cigar and so-called Little Cigar ads were allowed up until the mid-late seventies). I can"t see how tobacco use can add anything to a plot- Bogart excuse me. for all intensive purposed TV-Land is a smoke free zone- excepting reruns of movies which show tobacco use- such as those by Bogart and George Burns.