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[7UpJordan]

Id love to know if there is a study linking motorsport tobacco advertising and people starting smoking, or if it had more impact with smokers switching brands.

Let me comment as a smoker ok? I do not believe that any motorsport's tobacco advertising make's a person start smoking because either your a smoker or your not, it has more to do with your surrounding's and the crowd you grewup with, ie peer enfluence.

As far as switching brand's because your favorite team run's a particular brand advert I also think that is virtually non-existant. A smoker chooser's their brand and stick's with it believe me I know . I grewup watching the Silk Cut Jag's and Rothman's race car's and they never made me want to switch from Marlboro's and yes I smoked Marlboro's before I started following F1.

Castrol Jaguar's.

Hey when did Castrol Oil start making ciggy's?

Oops, well it was from the same era as the Silk Cut Jaguar, I was also going to mention the Shell Porsche and the silver Sauber Mercedes but realised they weren't ciggies either, but forgot to take out the Castrol Jag.

When I was a kid and saw JPS, Camel, Marlboro I didn't even know or care what they were (tobacco companies) I just thought they were on the car for the sake of it.

Now the Silk Cut Jaguar... that's just pornography!! But I used to think Silk Cut was a type of dark, smooth and expensive chocolate.

[Denthúl]

When I grew up, I didn't know that Mild Seven and West were both tobacco companies. Hell, I didn't even learn that until the banning of tobacco advertising was written about and those two disappeared!

[McLaren Fan]

Tobacco advertising didn't encourage me to smoke. Anything else advertised in Formula One did not encourage me to buy it. I don't buy Mobil 1 oil just because McLaren use it! I agree with most others on here that tobacco advertising made the cars look brilliant. I mean, the West colours on the McLaren looked great, the Benson and Hedges Jordans (especially in 1999) looked superb, the Rothmans-coloured Williams were excellent looking and the JPS Lotus colours were really attractive. The Marlboro McLaren colours, perhaps not as interesting as some of the aforementioned, were really iconic and had a certain stand-out quality to them. Most sponsors logos now look a bit bland. In the 1990s, the range of colour in Formula One looked class.

[darwin dali]

durex sponsored team surtees in 76 with Alan Jones driving

that was appropriate because Alan Jones is a sausage!

But he's an Aussie?!?!

[bud]

durex sponsored team surtees in 76 with Alan Jones driving

that was appropriate because Alan Jones is a sausage!

But he's an Aussie?!?!

doesnt mean i have to like him or change the fact he is a w***er

[darwin dali]