I'm old enough to remember when tobacco companies were allowed to advertise cigarettes, anywhere there were lots of eyeballs (like in sports venues). Even though that was leading to more people smoking them, and getting sick. Needing more healthcare than they otherwise would have, and potentially drawing healthcare resources away from treating unavoidable illness.
Governments in many parts of the world fixed that problem, by banning the advertising of tobacco products.
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I hope one day my grandchildren will tell a similar story about fossil fuel products. That governments around the world passed laws against carrying advertising for them. Then slowly expanded that ban to apply to businesses that totally depend on them. Like transport services that burn fossil fuels, or service stations that make most of their money selling them.
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Imagine if journalists writing about climate change for major media outlets no longer had to censor themselves, in fear of upsetting some of their employer's biggest customers?
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