[Mac900]

A friend brought this up whilst watching yesterday's race. How is it that Camel can have their name on their riders leathers and on the bikes but Marlboro cannot?

 

[Paper5tr3et7]

Camels are actually healthy for you...lowers cholesterol keeps weight off lowers risk of cancer/heart disease and ....OK I've got no idea.

 

[sqweak]

umm, they can. It's a regional regulation about tobacco advertising.

that's why sometimes they do: (tokyo)

and sometimes they don't: (us)

(iirc, US/Some EU/MidEast don't allow it, while asia does. however, EU is also uniformly banning it and is the reason that camel isn't the yama sponsor next year)

 

[gm2]

...that last part's not exactly official yet.

 

[sqweak]

...that last part's not exactly official yet.

everything but. every press release as of late from yama has been rather conspicuously missing any mention of camel.

 

[Tigre]

I think some countries allow, some ban, and some allow a ciggy company a certain number of sports/events at which they can advertise.

 

[SL_Don]

I think that kind of sucks. Smoke if you wanna smoke, chew if you wanna chew.... Just like American rodeo.. smokeless tobacco is banned in most arena's.... it's just silly.