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Tobacco Advertisements

Volume 203: debated on Friday 14 February 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to seek changes in legislation to require that, when advertisements for tobacco products are seen on television at sporting and other events, a health warning is also given in vision and sound.

None. The broadcast coverage of tobacco company sponsored events, or events at which there is advertising for any tobacco company, is subject to a voluntary agreement reached between the Minister for Sport and the Tobacco Advisory Council in 1987.