Turkish Advertising History: 80's and tobacco advertising

80’s were not started comfortable for Turkey. With second Military Coup*, country was not politically very stable. TV broadcast was continuing in one channel order with TRT*. It was also good times for Turkish advertising world with many foreign and local companies. It makes newspaper advertising stronger and various then the last decade. The most crucial difference between 70's and 80's was the very often tobacco advertising in 80's. All of ads had a warning below them about the health risks but it is small and almost unreadable. Almost those all cigarette ads were colored and very remarkable in terms of visualization. Cigarette and tobacco ads are banned today in Turkey. But 80’s were the time they were very popular.