HC Deb 28 January 1993 vol 217 cc809-10W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what estimate he has of the amount of money spent by the tobacco industry each year on advertising and promoting tobacco.

Mr. Leigh

The "Advertising Statistics Yearbook", published by the Advertising Association, contains figures on the amount of money spent on advertising tobacco products, excluding expenditure on sponsorship, sales promotion and billboard advertising.

The 1992 edition of the yearbook gives expenditure, at current prices, on tobacco advertising over the last five years as follows:

£ million
1987 47.5
1988 47.1
1989 44.0
1990 50.0
1991 42.9

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