Before the late 1990’s, tobacco advertising was literally everywhere (not just in motor-sports either). Big tobacco companies would sponsor not only cars, but Grand Prix’s in general. They would even field their own race teams. It was big money. (Who remembers the green Williams Kool cars? Or the Ferrari and McLaren Marlboro cars? ) – By the late 1990’s European countries outlawed the advertising of tobacco in sports. Every tobacco company had eventually pulled out of the Formula 1, with exception to Philip Morris.
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