Certain advertisements should be banned. Advertisements promoting the use of drugs, and alcohol should not be allowed. These advertisements may be indirectly target toward the younger audience, influencing them to use drugs, or alcohol. These advertisements are very persuasive, and may influence wrong choices. Advertisements promoting the use of drugs, and alcohol can be removed by banning the advertisements, enlarging the warning signs, and allowing society to be in control of what advertisements are shown.
Some people may argue alcohol, and drug advertisements do not affect the younger audiences. These advertisements are legal now, but they should be banned to protect younger audiences from exposure to such things. Children aged between six and seventeen years of age were interviewed and asked the question whether advertisements showing the use of cigarettes should be banned. About eighty percent of the children of the primary school age agreed such advertising should be banned. Around sixty eight percent among the twelve to thirteen year olds also favored a ban on these advertisements. Lastly surveyed were the sixteen and seventeen year olds. About forty four percent among the sixteen to seventeen year olds said cigarette advertisements should be banned. These percentages show that the advertisements do affect the younger audiences. While the secondary school children favored a ban on these advertisements; they began to mention the health risks, and the “persuasive function of advertising.” (Aitken, P.P et al. 204-207) Statistics have shown that more and more tobacco and alcohol products are beginning to be more common on the college campuses nationwide. “National surveys indicate that 68% of college students have consumed at...
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...en from primary school up to secondary school have favored a ban on advertisements. (Aitken P.P et el. 204-207). This statistic may show that if given the opportunity, majority of society would choose advertisements that do not promote the use drugs or alcohol. Society can play a huge role in making good decisions for the younger audiences. Most parents want what is best for their kids.
Overall, advertisements advocating the use of drugs, or alcohol are not good influences on children, and teenagers, or anyone in that matter. Advertisements promoting the use of drugs or alcohol should be removed by banning the advertisements, enlarging the warning signs, and allowing society to choose what advertisements are suitable for their household. Removing advertisements advocating the use of alcohol or drugs can help influence better choices for the younger audiences.
Tobacco companies should be prevented from using advertising tactics that target teenagers. There has always been controversy as to how tobacco companies should prevent using advertising tactics to target teenagers. As controversial as this is tobacco companies shouldn’t advertise teen smoking. Many teens may be lured to believe cigarette advertising because it has been part of the American Culture for years, magazine ads and the media target young people, and these companies receive a drastic increase financially; however, the advertising by these cigarette companies has disadvantages such as having to campaign against their own company, limiting their cigarette advertising and becoming a controversial dilemma as to encouraging teenagers to smoke. From billboards to newspaper advertisements, cigarette promotions started becoming part of the American Culture.
This helps widen the idea of just how many ways children and teens can be affected by advertisements not just by making them more accessible but making them a part of what this society is. By making their products a part of the child’s life they are allowing the product to become a norm in the life of a child.
Every year, children watch an average of 20,000 commercials, with 2000 of them promoting alcoholic beverages. While many view them as harmless, logic would contend that these advertisements play an important role in influencing the attitudes and ideals that society’s youths relate to alcohol consumption. Many aspects of modern media deliver promises that once one engages in “drinking,” the will merge with a high society way of life where popularity, desirability and ultimately happiness are easily attained. While peers and families, environment and heredity, all contribute to one’s inclination to drink, more so, the messages revealed in TV shows, movies, mainstream music and even everyday commercials are constant and consistent in their encouragement of drinking alcohol.
Most of this ad pictures in this set are persuasive enough to convice people from drinking and driving and using drugs. Most of these ad are very effective because they all show what the concequences of drinking and driving and using drugs can lead to. It is up to us as a society to try and help each other out and put an end to this issues.
We all see numerous advertisements everyday and think nothing of them. Instead of reading through them we just look at them for what they are, maybe colorful, full of fun and catchy words or phrases, and pictures plastered on billboards, in magazines, newspapers, etc. From listening to my english instructor I realized that ads are advertising a lot more than they claim to be, especially ones about alcohol. In my essay about "false advertisements" I've elaborated on how ads about alcohol are sending subliminal messages to certain groups of people in society. It was somewhat hard to explain the messages behind the ads, but once they are understood it's surprsing to see what's been discovered!
The main idea against alcohol beverage ads on television is that they seem to "normalize" drinking in the minds of young viewers. To the extent the ads may be performing a positive role. (Hanson, 1997). The nature of alcohol ads on...
Do you want your children to start smoking and drinking? Do you want them to lose their life? Alcohol and tobacco advertising causes peer pressure to young people and influences them to start smoking and drinking. You can’t even let your child watch TV because of all of the alcohol advertising that is going on.
In America, advertising plays an important role for buisnesses trying to get the word out on their new product. Although, some advertisements are not trying to target children, it does seem that way. However, I feel that this should not result in banning, but some limiting of advertisements. Buisnesses should make their messages to consumers clearer, targeting people of an elder age. If buisnesses are going to target children, at least try to persuade them to do the right things and not just try to get them to buy their products!
Fox, RichardJ.;Krugman, Dean M.; Fletcher, James E.;Fischer, Paul M., “Adolescents’ attention to beer and cigarette print ads and associated product warnings.” Journal of Advertising, 9/22/98. vol. 27. p. 57. Online. Electric Library.
Many people say alcohol and tobacco ads on television, in magazines, even at convenient stores encourage youth to start these bad habits. Do these ads really target children? Can these ads really influence kids to start drinking or smoking? Advertisements can have some influences on teens, but the alcohol and tobacco companies say it really cannot. Although these ads can seem appealing to kids by making the people look cool doing it, these ads are not aimed toward these teens.
Advertising of gambling can be very harmful and should be totally eliminated because for adolescents it can be the start of a lifetime struggle with addiction and for gamblers it can be a constant reminder and a trigger for them to promote them to gamble more. This can result in people ruining their lifestyle, financial status and relationships. It is strongly recommended that all advertisements of gambling are completely removed.
Across America in homes, schools, and businesses, sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an entire nation has surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling. Advertisers, within the constraints of the law, use their thirty-second commercials to target America's youth to be the decision-makers, convincing their parents to buy the advertised toys, foods, drinks, clothes, and other products. Inherent in this targeting, especially of the very young, are the advertisers; fostering the youth's loyalty to brands, creating among the children a loss of individuality and self-sufficiency, denying them the ability to explore and create but instead often encouraging poor health habits. The children demanding advertiser's products are influencing economic hardships in many families today. These children, targeted by advertisers, are so vulnerable to trickery, are so mentally and emotionally unable to understand reality because they lack the cognitive reasoning skills needed to be skeptical of advertisements. Children spend thousands of hours captivated by various advertising tactics and do not understand their subtleties.
Should tobacco and alcohol advertising be allowed on television? The ban on advertising tobacco is already in affect, however, alcohol is another harmful substance. Should liquor be allowed to be advertised, if tobacco can not advertise their product? The ban on advertising tobacco products on television and radio, was passed through legislation in 1970 by Richard Nixon. This argument like others out there has two sides, one side in favor these advertisements and the other against these advertisements. Since both of these substances are highly addictive and costly. Would we like to see these advertisements continued? Are these advertisements the hazard they are communicated to be? Through the research of these two important sides, this essay will explore which side has a stronger stance on the topic.
A teen who views these movies frequently is five times more likely to start drinking at a young age than a teen who does not view this material” (Media Influences on Juvenile Delinquency. (n.d.). The advertising industry invests about 1.7 billion dollars to lure in customers. Majority of the shows and commercial are viewed by the teen population. The television and movie industry is a mainstream to entice teens to a lot of unhealthy exposure. Not only does this industry promote underage drinking, but is also promotes the use of illegal drugs. “A teen who views this content is six times more likely to try a drug than a teen who is not exposed to this media. This drug use can also spark violence” (Media Influences of Juvenile Delinquency (n.d.).
Advertising has influenced teenagers in a profound way. The influence of advertising has affected teenagers in a way they are persistently exposed by means of television programs, articles in magazines, product endorsement ads, and through the internet. Although teenagers are excessively exposed, how they perceive and process advertisements ultimately determines how they are influenced. With that said, the perception towards advertisements can be amalgamated between reality and fantasy, which evidently has both negative and positive impacts. Advertisers strategically capitalize on what is trending in youth culture which makes teenagers most pervasive to wanting to fit in. The societal culture in advertising plays a crucial role in the way teenagers