Rated X wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Comic books aren't considered children's products anymore.Rated X wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Under the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, it is illegal for any company to sell any product to U.S. consumers if said product even remotely gives off the slightest minuscule impression of advertising tobacco-based goods to children.
Nor are PG-13 movies.
And that thing on Human Alliance Jazz's packaging isn't advertising anything.
I guess that would make comic books "adult products" then. Might as well make Archie the new poster boy for the Colorado legalization movement.
You got me on the movie. But seeing as how it's the flagship of a Hasbro franchise, it makes them look like a bunch of hypocrites over this Marlboor thing. Hasbro technically does own Takara, right ?
On the sideswipe packaging, it is advertising something....its advertising smoking in general.
You quoted "it is illegal for any company to sell any product to U.S. consumers if said product even remotely gives off the slightest minuscule impression of advertising tobacco-based goods to children".
A fictional cigarette advertisement on a children's toy box is ok, but an altered red bow tie on the hood of a car is not ? Hasbro's big bad leagal department turned into a bunch of pu**ys. They should have taken Phill Morris to court, for sure they would have won. Is this even the same Hasbro legal department that shut down KO toys and scared the crap out of Chimungmung ? I think not...
That's what you get when you (the people)allow equally stupid know it alls (politicians) to try and legislate the "bad" things away. It WON'T!
Deviate a bit at legislation stupidities. Attempts to legislate the use of firearms in a country founded in the use of firearms hence you get a Megatron with orange caps. You get incidences where a toddler is suspended when he makes a gun gesture bang bang with his hands and fingers. STUPID NO?
Then we have that asinine ruling that's the root case of this controversy. Ayayayay! Ay caramba!
And that example used by "X", no matter how it not endorsing a particular brand just goes to show how stupid this issue really IS! Smoke cigars, no issue but smoke PM cigars..........ohhhhhh so bad.......