
Exceptions are made for other forms of notoriety (such as the song or artist has been nominated for at least one Grammy Award or the artist or song was named on a critic's list of notable songs from a reputable source) with proper references included. Only songs or artists who are established enough to have a Wikipedia page are included.Guidelines for adding songs and artists to the lists: If the song (once placed into at least one of the above categories) marked a significant " break through" event in the artist's career, like a debut album or a 1st international hit.If the song has a music video showing tobacco products.

If the song contains other tobacco related words like cigar, smoking, lighter or brand names like Marlboro.If the song contains the word cigarette.Within each category tobacco references are placed into one or more of four subcategories depending on: The Rap/hip-hop category is not as fully developed as the Pop/rock and Country categories so there is no division between male and female artists in the Rap/hip-hop category. Pop/rock and Country are further subdivided to distinguish female from male artists. Pop/rock (a catch-all category that includes jazz, soul, musicals-anything that is not country or rap/hip-hip).The reference lists in this article are divided into three main categories: It is presumed that product placement advertising, where an artist may be paid by an advertiser to incorporate certain products in their artwork, is included in these tobacco advertising restrictions.
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For all these reasons many governments (including the United States federal government in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act) have strictly regulated or outright banned tobacco advertising to the general public despite such laws raising serious free speech issues, and the general trend appears to be calls for stricter controls as more data emerges concerning the effects of tobacco references in the entertainment media on teens. Tobacco use is also more directly linked to adverse health effects such as cancer whereas similar studies with alcohol and other drugs are less definitive.

As with similar lists for tobacco references in movies, TV, and video games tobacco is often singled out over other substances such as alcohol and drugs because children and teens have been shown to be more susceptible to tobacco advertising in the media (relative to alcohol advertising) and have also been shown to be more susceptible to nicotine addiction (relative to alcohol addiction) while a young person's brain is still developing. This article contains comprehensive lists of tobacco references in music. All of its AfDs can be found at Wikipedia:Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tobacco_references_in_music, the first at Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tobacco_references_in_music. This is a backup of Wikipedia:Tobacco_references_in_music. This article was considered for deletion at Wikipedia on July 7 2016.
