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.
George Parker once said, “The only people who care about advertising are the people who work in advertising." Advertisers use many different techniques that target children and teens. Many people do not realize how harmful this can turn out to be. Advertising plays a harmful role in the lives of youth because it poses health risks, prevents children and teens from saving money, and exposes them to way too many ads.
In the article, Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture by Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor (Ackley 361). Since the early 90s is when Commercialism has bombarded the society. Ruskin and Schor provide examples why advertising has an effect on people’s health. Marketing related diseases afflicting people in the United States, and especially children, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and smoking-related illnesses. “Each day, about 2,000 U.S. children begin to smoke, and about one-third of them will die from tobacco-related illnesses” (Ackley 366). Children are inundated with advertising for high calorie junk food and fast food, and, predictably, 15 percent of U.S. children aged 6 to 19 are now overweight (Ackley 366). Commercialism promotes future negative effects and consumers don’t realize it.
These ads misinform patients, encourage over-medication, and pressure doctors and medical providers. The counter side states that prescription drug ads educate patients, encourage the correct usage of drugs, and cause patients to ask their doctors about possible treatments. Both sides have examples and evidence, but the cons of prescription drug ads are stronger. The pros explain how some lives can be improved. However, the cons focus on the dangerous effect these ads have on the viewers. Although these drugs are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, DTC prescription drug ads can be manipulated to have catastrophic effects on the
advertising is becoming a bigger role in the lives of youth. Since deregulation in 1984, the money advertisers make off of kids has been increasing by millions each year. kids who don't even have the brain function to make a good choice on what they buy are being targeted as young as 5. As young kids become more accustomed to certain products young, they continue buying them over their whole life. This is what advertisers are causing by targeting the youth. Advertisers are finding that marketing to kids makes a lot of money, the youth believe everything they hear, and the advertising techniques they do today are almost sure to work.
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.
“Teen drug use in exactly the campaign's demographic has dropped sharply - there are over 800,000 fewer American teens using drugs…”(2) This striking but true statement is a product of break through advertising strategies, and over the years researchers have developed new ways to help adults and teens stay away from drugs. By using fear, the ads setting, and incorporating actors that pertain to the target audience, drug advertisements have been a huge success in the world.
For every one alcohol abuse “don’t drink” campaign they see every year, teenagers will see fifty times more advertisements that promotes drinking. While advertisements and commercials are quick to stress the supposed positivity of ...
Ads are seen everyday, on every channel. We see a variety of things. We see commercials for food, clothing, furnature, you name it. Good or bad they target everyone, including children. The affect on children come into play of course, which is understandble. I believe we should take a step back and realize what banning of advertisment would do to children.
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.
The government has tried and tried to take away our basic rights, hide stuff from us, and are now trying to ban junk food and fast food commercials? I think junk food commercials should not be banned because the government should not have the power the sensor what we watch. It is discrimination towards the companies that pay to put their product on television but no longer can because they are blamed for the nation’s problems. Finally it would take away jobs.
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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.
Advertising has influenced teenagers in a profound way. The influence of advertising has affected teenagers in a way they are persistently exposed to 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.
In todays society people are assaulted by ads every day. The ads are everywhere, in your house, in your car, on the streets. Slogans, catchy songs, videos and images are flashed across TV screens, websites, billboards, phones and radios around the world. These ads are produced by a handful of big name companies. The ads not only try to sell you tangible products but also ideas of what things and people should be or act. Over the years these ads have grown more controversial and suggestive. The teen pregnancy ads in particular have become more aggressive than in the past years with the increase rate of teen pregnancy. The New York City Human Resources Administration with their Teen pregnancy prevention campaign for example is causing a lot of controversy.