NightOwl@lemm.ee to Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 years agoWhy aren’t health warnings on cigarettes expanded to alcohol?rabble.caexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up1519arrow-down125
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minus-squareworstcatintheworld@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYou are right. I misread America as “North America”, but America means USA. In the USA, they have freedom of speech, more so than Canada, the government can’t restrict advertising that much. Their industry is mostly self-regulating, for example: https://www.beerinstitute.org/policy-responsibility/responsibility/advertising-marketing-code/
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoWhen the cigarette companies decided they were losing money by advertising on TV they got it banned.
minus-squareEhForumUser@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 years ago America means USA It also refers to the combined area of North and South America. This the more likely usage here, as who would ask about whether or not the USA has such regulation in a Canadian forum? That would have no relevance.
minus-squareworstcatintheworld@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoNorth, South, and Central America! 😉 You must be right since I originally included Canada in “America”.
You are right. I misread America as “North America”, but America means USA. In the USA, they have freedom of speech, more so than Canada, the government can’t restrict advertising that much. Their industry is mostly self-regulating, for example: https://www.beerinstitute.org/policy-responsibility/responsibility/advertising-marketing-code/
When the cigarette companies decided they were losing money by advertising on TV they got it banned.
It also refers to the combined area of North and South America. This the more likely usage here, as who would ask about whether or not the USA has such regulation in a Canadian forum? That would have no relevance.
North, South, and Central America! 😉
You must be right since I originally included Canada in “America”.