"The leafleting just got out of hand. It was a nightmare. Every which way you went there was someone piling on more unnecessary literature about their products and services."

"I was given over 50 pamphlets from companies who wanted to make my penis bigger! Surely they could see I was not in the market for such a thing? They made me feel like a lady-boy from Thailand - it was distressing, but in a particularly exotic kind of way."

"Last year we had a problem with extremist elements of the advertising industry who infiltrated the conference with the sole intention of weighing down our delegates with useless paraphernalia. They were trying to make a point about the volume of useless advertising, apparently, but it backfired on them badly now we have banned it this year."

"What the marketing industry has got to understand is that our internet advertising is designed to be environmentally friendly. We guarantee that no furry, cuddly animals who live in trees are made homeless by our advertising, there is no paper based advertiser that can honestly make that pledge. It is for the good of the environment that we have banned this intrusive and unwelcome advertising."

"Delegates can still ask for the leafleting if they want, just they wont automatically be given it as they walk along between the exhibits."

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