Quit-smoking product enters NASCAR

yahoonews.com ^ | 1-18-05 | JENNA FRYER

[SheLion]

This wouldn't bother me so much if NASCAR didn't recently get into bed with Jack Daniels.  I lost that link.  If anyone has it, please post it here.

One of the top driver's is going to have Jack Daniels as a sponsor.  if Nextel Cup is going to start stuffing this quit smoking garbage down our throats, I will throw NASCAR week-ends to the wind.  I watch it for my favorite drivers and for the excitement of it all.  But I refuse to take more punishment and abuse from the anti-smoking agenda.

Hard liquor is good, smoking is not?  Where is the logic in this?

I guess the days of the 'good ole boys' are gone.

HARD LIQUOR IN - SMOKING OUT!

 

[SheLion]

[GVnana]

You mean they don't give out free cartons of cigarettes anymore? Oh man. Times have changed.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm glad to see Casey get a full season sponsor with so many others pulling out. Maybe this year he won't have to drive a pink car. I think any team fielding a pink car with a male driver should be eliminated bywhatever means necessary.

[Flyer]

with counselors on hand to help NASCAR fans quit smoking

Sigh. . . the death of NASCAR is a sad thing to watch.

[SheLion]

You mean they don't give out free cartons of cigarettes anymore? Oh man. Times have changed.

No. Now they are giving out little liquor bottles like you get on airplanes. heh!

[metesky]

Should be a good thread: smoking, drinking and driving, three of my favorite things.
;O)

[SheLion]

Sigh. . . the death of NASCAR is a sad thing to watch.

I knew it would never be the same when NASCAR came under Nextel! Can't even watch the fights in the pits anymore. What fun is that? 7 second delay on TV.........they are trying to shelter us like little kids. Maybe they will hope we will get drunk on their liquor sponsor to numb the pain.

[TexasCowboy]

It's time to tell it like it is:

The men fans of NASCAR are men in the traditional sense of the word, and the women love them because they are men.

They don't worry about eating too much fat, drinking water without flouride, good chloresterol versus bad chloresterol, breathing exhaust fumes or smoking too many cigarettes. They live life and enjoy it without the fear the medical community tries to instill in society.
They may not live as long, but they enjoy what they have.

It's time some of these wusses that feel faint when they smell cigarette smoke learn that there is more to life than fear of dying.

[Mears]

Casey Mears? No relation!!!!!!!

[newgeezer]

I want to see a bumper sticker that says, "HANG UP AND DRIVE!" on one of those Nextel Cup cars.

[Raycpa]

More hypocrisy of the smokers. Its only all about private property rights, unless of course the private property owner is against smoking.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Always follow the money behind the scenes. The patches don't work for #$%^ but maybe if you put them on the race car it'll stop smoking.

[MikefromOhio]

Nicorette gum became the first smoking cessation product to enter NASCAR when GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare signed a sponsorship deal Thursday with Chip Ganassi Racing. Three of its quit-smoking products -- the gum, the NicoDerm CQ patch and Commit lozenges -- will be advertised on the rear decklid of Casey Mears' car for the entire season. Nicorette will also be the primary sponsor on the No. 41 Dodge for one race in a deal estimated to cost the company $3 million annually.

I dont know about the other stuff Nascar is doing (I dont care I think Nascar is boring honestly), but the team did sign a contract with the sponsor and assuming that nothing uncivilized happens with the crew the driver or the company, its probably legally binding at this point. Besides which this guy didnt have a sponsor so I say good for him....

[Coldwater Creek]

Me too!! All cell phones need to automatically cut off in restaurants.

[Coldwater Creek]

If you don't care about NASCAR and find it boring, why are you even commenting?

[Alberta's Child]

I think people are reading too much into this. The company that markets this product is no different than any other -- it's not like NASCAR went out of its way to send a message by seeking this type of advertiser.

Heck, Mark Martin drives a car that is sponsored by Viagra. Sort of gives new meaning to the term "pole position," I guess.

[gjpino]

The death of NASCAR??

NASCAR is in pretty good shape, if I'm not mistaken...

[phil1750]

NASCAR is a business and thus can get sponsorship from any business that has the advertising dollar$. I see nothing wrong with advertising ANY product.

[MikefromOhio]

You mean I am required to be interested in something to comment on it?!? Ohh the horror!!