<story><title>Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/germany-abortion-law.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hermel</author><text>Still banned in Germany: ads for lawyers, ads for doctors, ads for cigarettes, ads for gambling, and ads for drugs that need a prescription.&lt;p&gt;When traveling to the US, it always strikes me how different public ads are. The US has more public ads and also much more aggressive ads. An ad for an injury lawyer would be unthinkable in Europa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amai</author><text>In Denmark political ads are banned on TV. That reduces the amount of money necessary for campaigns before an election quite a lot:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oscepa.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-a-media&amp;#x2F;op-eds&amp;#x2F;the-danish-way-of-elections&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oscepa.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-a-media&amp;#x2F;op-eds&amp;#x2F;the-danish-way...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slks.dk&amp;#x2F;fileadmin&amp;#x2F;user_upload&amp;#x2F;dokumenter&amp;#x2F;medier&amp;#x2F;reklamer&amp;#x2F;political_advertising_tv&amp;#x2F;poladvertising.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slks.dk&amp;#x2F;fileadmin&amp;#x2F;user_upload&amp;#x2F;dokumenter&amp;#x2F;medier&amp;#x2F;rekl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/germany-abortion-law.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hermel</author><text>Still banned in Germany: ads for lawyers, ads for doctors, ads for cigarettes, ads for gambling, and ads for drugs that need a prescription.&lt;p&gt;When traveling to the US, it always strikes me how different public ads are. The US has more public ads and also much more aggressive ads. An ad for an injury lawyer would be unthinkable in Europa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeneralTspoon</author><text>&amp;gt; ads for cigarettes&lt;p&gt;When did this happen? When I was in Munich a few years back there were poster ads for cigarettes everywhere. I remember them being not very subtle about their “smoking is cool” message.</text></comment>