Here’s How the Tobacco Industry Gets Around Facebook’s Ban on Tobacco Ads – BuzzFeed News

Read article - Quotes Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University that found that Facebook's ban on tobacco advertising hasn't stopped tobacco and e-cigarette companies from using the platform to promote their products. "Lots of these social networking sites have this duality where they publicly proclaim to not have tobacco advertising and marketing, and have very easily searchable content that has plenty of branded tobacco advertising," says Soneji, who wasn't involved in the study.