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Turkey: tobacco's hard drive for ban-busting F1
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In Turkey, a major national obsession is football
that's soccer, not
the American game that keeps teams of orthopaedic specialists in
business. But in what seems to be the most desperate attempt to date by
the tobacco industry to get round Turkey's 1996 tobacco control law,
which includes a total ban on all forms of tobacco promotion, Turkey
has recently been subjected to an increasing crescendo of publicity for
Formula 1 motor racing. This seems to stem from a highly organised
campaign, one of whose aims is to get a Formula 1 grand prix race
established in Turkey, and bears the almost unmistakable fingerprints
of the tobacco industry.
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In a country which to date has shown not the slightest interest in
motor racing, health advocates have monitored an extraordinary crop of
publicity giving Formula 1 an entirely new and prominent public
profile. Magazine articles and radio and television programmes have
featured it, and sports
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