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Ironically, liquor companies have never benefited from any similar trope, since anti-''drinking'' commercials are nowhere near as common and rarely call for the abuser to cease indulging his habit altogether. In fact, they've been more than willing to make commercials of their own calling for their customers to drink "responsibly" (i.e. in moderation) and have a designated driver to get them home safely if they've had too much. That advertising alcohol itself isn't illegal ([[UsefulNotes/BeerCommercials other than depicting consumption of it on-screen]]) explains it.
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Ironically, liquor companies have never benefited from any similar trope, since anti-''drinking'' commercials are nowhere near as common and rarely call for the abuser to cease indulging his habit altogether. In fact, they've been more than willing to make commercials of their own calling for their customers to drink "responsibly" (i.e. in moderation) and have a designated driver to get them home safely if they've had too much. That advertising alcohol itself isn't illegal ([[UsefulNotes/BeerCommercials ([[MediaNotes/BeerCommercials other than depicting consumption of it on-screen]]) explains it.
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* Another non-smoking example: [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland old-timey home-making and women's health guidebooks]] sometimes included chapters on how to increase the chance for a successful conception. Fair enough. Then, occasionally, they followed that with a note saying that women of ill repute often act against the provided advice for exactly inverse reason.
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* A variation on the theme happened in Poland after the law forbade TV advertising of hard liquors, where instead of anti-drinking public service announcements, it took the form of TV advertisements of leisure activities (boat cruises, horse riding clubs, film festivals, etc.) which were sponsored by, or more infamously, were named in ways that ''just totally accidentally'' happened to sound similar to names of popular vodka brands. By common opinion the worst offender was "The Bols Boat", which for a while became a common euphemism after a stand-up comedian parodied it in a song about spending the whole night "sailing" from one "port" to another. [[note]]In Polish, the word "łódka" - meaning a small boat - is just a single letter away from the word for vodka. Needless to say, of all the possible words one might call a leisure sailing vessel, the ad just so happened to use this one. For comparison, the other example was supposedly promoting a horse-riding club named in such a way that its acronym sounded a bit like "vodka" when pronounced quickly. Which it was.[[/note]]
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An invoked instance of DoNotDoThisCoolThing. See also SmokingIsCool. Compare RandomSmokingScene, where characters light up InUniverse in a way that looks suspiciously like ProductPlacement.
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An invoked instance of DoNotDoThisCoolThing. See also SmokingIsCool.SmokingIsCool and SmokingIsEdgy. Compare RandomSmokingScene, where characters light up InUniverse in a way that looks suspiciously like ProductPlacement.
