Is YouTube telling or selling you something? : tobacco content on the YouTube video-sharing website

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This paper analyzes the amount of smoking material on the YouTube website. The authors conducted a search for videos containing smoking images; the search retrieved 29,325 videos. Of the first 50 videos, 24 had smoking images, 21 contained marijuana images, and 2 included cigar images. Authors also discuss the effects for tobacco control.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2007.020024

Comment: Just another sneaky way for the tobacco industry to market their products, without appearing to do so. The ability for the tobacco control movement to use YouTube shouldn't be overlooked, especially with the popularity of the website with youth. I don't think I'm alone in being sucked into YouTube for hours, with the intent of only watching a 3 minute video...