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London Mayor Bans Body Shaming Ads

  • BBC, Tuesday, June 14, 2016 8 AM

As part of his mayoral election manifesto, Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images from public transport in London. The Advertising Standards Agency received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"

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