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Guatemala: snow stopping ’em
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; jbarnoya@medicine.ucsf.edu
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Some interesting examples of horses for courses in tobacco advertising were to be seen early this year in Guatemalan newspapers. Snow is about as common in Guatemala as palm trees in Antarctica, but when you are selling a myth to educated people, you can use a wide range of reference points. Philip Morris’s Marlboro brand is mostly smoked by the higher and middle socioeconomic classes, so a pretty cowboy scene with snow is no barrier when wishing people a happy holiday season from the world of Marlboro.
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However, Philip Morris also makes the local Rubios brand, smoked mainly by people at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, so for its "Merry Christmas" ad, a traditional Guatemalan scene, with a starlit courtyard looking
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