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29-08-2008, 10:02 AM
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I'm just wondering -- do the busybodies ever get the punchline that ANYBODY not actively involved in manufacturing motor products, who sponsors motorsport, is purely there to make a loss and write it off as advertising? Isn't the driving reason that motorsport is the only advertising avenue many of these products have left, purely because motorsport would be hugely short of moolah should it be withdrawn?
Do they want no outside sponsorship beyond honda, bridgestone, etc.?
Or do they report all this thinking that your average person can't connect the dots?
Frankly, I think it's disgusting that we can censor advertising in the first place that isn't inherently offensive. Either people can make up their own minds and that kind of censorship is draconic, or people are sheep, and have no free will. Which is anti-christian. Pick your fallacy.
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29-08-2008, 11:59 AM
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Ducati.com
I question whether the story is even accurate. The link above takes you to the Ducati Factory MotoGP team's sponsorship page where no tobacco companies are mentioned. The article in the West Australian shows last years bike with all the Malboro livery but I can't remember seeing it on the bike this year.
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29-08-2008, 12:06 PM
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Last year the only places in the world that allowed tobacco advertising was quatar and china, this year only china allowed it.
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29-08-2008, 12:11 PM
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Stoner the new Marlboro Man????
maybe if you live on Broke Back Mountain...
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29-08-2008, 12:24 PM
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This is my favourite bit:
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The anti-tobacco group Action on Smoking and Health, the youth health project Smarter than Smoking and the Australian Network on Young People and Tobacco have written to Stoner and his management at Ducati calling on him to relinquish his sponsorship deal with tobacco giant Philip Morris.
WTF! It's not like Marlboro are even a personal sponsor! What did they think he was going to reply with?
"Oh I see the error of my ways, let me just tell Ducati to get rid of all Marlboro sponsorship"
Sorry, this is boiling my blood!
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29-08-2008, 12:30 PM
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^ Obviously not, the idea is to put pressure on Stoner to himself put pressure on Ducati to drop the Marlboro sponsorship. Not going to happen though, is it 
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29-08-2008, 12:31 PM
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Journalism continues to strive for lofty heights...
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29-08-2008, 12:57 PM
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29-08-2008, 01:01 PM
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nah nah! You have it all wrong...this is what rizla paper is for!
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29-08-2008, 01:02 PM
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Vermeulen is a Stoner.. wait ..what?!
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29-08-2008, 01:11 PM
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2 strokes, please!
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Good olde Dutch Bong building paper, fark yeah!
In Dutchland smokin pot is fully legal!
Ohh yeahh
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29-08-2008, 01:14 PM
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Hmmm. Dutch GP. Legal dope... field trip!
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29-08-2008, 01:22 PM
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Sounds good to me! A place where you can't smoke a cig in a cafe, but you're allowed to light up a blunt!! hehe!
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29-08-2008, 05:24 PM
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Ducati + Traction control ….There’s your Anti smoking campaign right there !
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29-08-2008, 05:45 PM
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Quote:
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Cigarette advertising is illegal (in motorsport) in this country. But when other countries dont have that same rule, it kinda makes a mockery of our rule.
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So you're saying that we should impose our laws on the rest of the world? Pretty US-centric thinking there (tongue in cheek, not saying that's what you actually believe, but its not that big a leap).
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Personally, I think its a good thing that Australia has taken pretty big steps in getting rid of smoking advertising.
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I don't.
I'm not a smoker, I think its disgusting.
BUT... I think they should be free to advertise as they please.
Once you start restricting what people can print/say/paint/etc - you're on a slippery slope. Educate kids about teh perils/evils of smoking (surely everyone knows by now anyway with the pack pictures), but don't go setting legal precedents for encouraging censorship. |
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29-08-2008, 06:01 PM
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Cigar And a waffle?
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29-08-2008, 07:18 PM
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I thought Ducati was sponsored by the big and little barcode company.
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29-08-2008, 07:50 PM
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hell i never knew that the bar code thingy was malboro i always though it was a technology company or something, Shit if your old enough to realise that the symbol is marlboro then surely you are old enough to know right from wrong and make your own mind up. FUCK YOU DO GOODERS I HOPE YOU GET AIDS FROM A DORRINGTON/KOBELKE ORGY GET A REAL JOB YOU BLUDGING FUCKS
sorry i hate it when people stick there nose into unimportant shit
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29-08-2008, 09:37 PM
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A new sponsor idea:
You know it makes sense.
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29-08-2008, 10:21 PM
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Quote:
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Stoner the new Marlboro Man????
maybe if you live on Broke Back Mountain...
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I hope he knows it will stunt his growth, hes not that big. 
I have noticed that the media bags bike sports, hay stick it. Your stinking fooby crap that’s loosing big time. Losers. We know who’s on the world stage and makes more money. 
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