Advertising Controversy
On April 1988, RJR Nabisco fired the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency for their commercial for Northwest Airlines with the pitch that they no longer allow smoking in any of their flights. Saatchi and Saatchi was handling advertising for Nabisco products and not for any RJR tobacco products.
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