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Why have tobacco companies turned to social media to advertise their products? SELECT AN ANSWER because it is against the law for them to advertise on TV, billboards, or sporting events because people don't watch much TV anymore because advertising on social media does not cost them a lot of money

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n this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned cigarette ads from airing on television and radio. After World War II, cigarette companies began advertising heavily on TV. ... In that year, tobacco firms were the single-largest product advertisers on television

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