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Gandalf, Strider, and the hobbits are trying to sell tabacco, or worse "weeds!!!" nooooooooo
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If it is indeed advertising "weeds!!" as you say then their sales pitch no-doubt would be something like "Better than BC Bud".
Not only are the movies’ product placements advertising a multitude of products and expenses that you could point out, it is also advertising something much more evil...
Stereotypes are reinforced inside Tolkien's world! Gasp!
Stereotypes that we have long harboured in all societies and long fought against. For example, Pippin is only solidifying the false idea that the younger you are the dumber you are. Never mind the lack of experience, there are a multitude of characters who proclaim this. Is it a personal grudge that the author has or the government trying to keep the radical youths from gaining real power?
Another common one is the women who are objects, mere paperweights in the story throughout, and not very smart paperweights either. Arwen is a silly romantic (another example of youth=idiocy?), Eowen keeps messing up, and don't forget that comic relief women in the houses of healing. And always the men triumph and look cool doing it!
All of these stereotypes are probably selling something, I won't go into the intricate plans of the evil censors or advertisers. Someone is making too much money. And my friends, the only way to fight them is to bring these pirates the limelight they deserve and uncover their foul plots disguised so cleverly as mere characters in a fantasy story.