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>>smnrg+(OP)
Sao Paulo, Brazil, made outdoor advertising illegal. That worked out quite well.

The US used to forbid prescription drug advertising. That seemed to work.

Ads for liquor, marijuana, and gambling are prohibited in many jurisdictions.

The FCC once limited the number of minutes of ads per hour on the public airwaves. That limit was below 10% of air time in the 1960s.

The SEC used to limit ads for financial products to dull "tombstone" ads, which appeared mostly in the Wall Street Journal.

A useful restriction might be to make advertising non tax deductible as a business expense. That encourages putting value into cost of goods sold rather than marketing.

>>Animat+le
> Sao Paulo, Brazil, made outdoor advertising illegal. That worked out quite well.

it was just a gimmick in the end. yeah the city is cleaner, but i doubt there's even the slightest difference in sports betting in sao paulo vs places with outdoors, for example.

...and did the us forbid prescription drugs ads? thats literally all i see on daytime tv.

>>1oooqo+wv
> I doubt there's even the slightest difference in sports betting.

> Yeah the city is cleaner..

Cool. So it has positive effects on the city, without any negative effects on economic outcomes.

Cool. I'm in. Let's implement it everywhere

>>drekip+Qz
the article discussion is about having impact on addiction and behavior... I'm pointing that while there's profit to be made, trying to ban advertising in one way is futile for that end.

yeah you can make the city pretier or get less banners on your sites, whatever. advertising will still happen.