<P> Tobacco companies continue to exploit associations with Nazis to fight anti-tobacco measures . Modern Germany has some of Europe's worst tobacco control policies, and more Germans both smoke and die of it in consequence . </P> <P> In the late 1940s, scientific evidence that tobacco harmed health mounted . </P> <P> However, until the 1970s, most tobacco advertising was legal in the United States and most European nations . In the 1940s and 50s, tobacco was a major radio sponsor; in the 1950s and 60s, they became predominantly involved in televison.In the United States, in the 1950s and 1960s, cigarette brands frequently sponsored television shows--notably To Tell the Truth and I've Got a Secret . Brand jingles were commonly used on radio and television . Major cigarette companies would advertise their brands in popular TV shows such as The Flintstones and The Beverly Hillbillies, which were watched by many children and teens . In 1964, after facing much pressure from the public, The Cigarette Advertising Code was created by the Tobacco companies, which prohibited advertising directed to youth . </P> <P> Advertising continued to use celebrities and famous athletes . Popular comedian Bob Hope was used to advertise for cigarette companies . The African - American magazine Ebony often used athletes to advertise major cigarette brands . </P>

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