re: #614 sattv4u2

I didn’t say the profits from those markets didn’t go up, I DID say the the upturn in profits was MOSTLY (not entirely) due to “newer” markets

Well, then you’re just bringing up irrelevant facts for no reason. Nifty!

Again: When advertising for tobacco was banned, the profits in those markets rose. This is because the advertising was not actually, in the end, beneficial in a cost/benefit analysis. So, your contention that if advertising didn’t actually do anything, companies would stop it is, in fact, demonstrably wrong.