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The first major step that must be done is to enforce tougher laws on tobacco use and sales. There needs to be more tougher penalties and fines for people who sell to minors or buy for minors. In another study done by the American Lung Association (Online, 1999) it says Thirty percent of teens that smoke say that they were able to obtain cigarettes from retail stores. Thirty-two percent of kids who smoke say they borrow cigarettes from people. Another twenty-three percent of kids get their cigarettes by having an old enough person buy it for them. Now the government needs to crack down on these stores and the people who buy these products for our youth. Even implementing a fine for Minors In Possession of Tobacco may be necessary because it will save a lot of lives in America and a lot of money for the American economy. Right now the government is pumping 97 billion dollars back into health care as a result of smoking. Making smoking highly illegal for minors may have a pos!.
itive effect on American society, financially and for the country's overall health as a nation.
Another solution to this problem would to be to reinforce the bad effects of tobacco use using commercials, billboards, magazine articles, and newspaper articles. If children were constantly reminded of the bad effects of tobacco use, then they would get the picture. If every once in a while in between cartoons a commercial came on that said that 400,000 people die every year of tobacco use, kids would have all their attention on that commercial. Even if in their cartoons, the characters said bad things about tobacco use and the truths of tobacco use, the children would understand, and they might think twice about smoking. If a child sees all bad things about smoking and tobacco use and no good they are definitely more likely not to smoke. There is still the sixty-six percent of teen smokers that began smoking for other reasons than the advertisements, but thirty-four percent less teenage smokers is better than nothing.
Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... In 1971 Cigarette ads were taken off the television. ... Tobacco Institute, 10 Jan 1979, p2). ...
Beating Big Tobacco As part of the 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement, the nations largest cigarette companies promised not to "take any action directly or indirectly to target youth in advertising, promotion, or marketing of tobacco products." ... The three most popular cigarette brands with youth ran ads that reached more than 80 percent of U.S. teenagers an average of 17 times. ... Many of these ads lead kids to associate smoking with popularity, sex, or relaxation. ... Studies also show that adolescents are more likely to recall cigarette ads than 30-year-olds. ... Surprisingly, the...
die in the United States die from tobacco related diseases. ... Despite all the gain in knowledge that has been made over the last couple of decades about the harmful effects of tobacco, there are still thousands of people who start using tobacco products everyday! Obviously, the most damaging effect of tobacco products is the health risk. ... Instead, they use chewing tobacco. ... Ads for cigarettes and chewing tobacco try to make smoking and chewing glamorous. ...
People in the ads for Kool cigarettes seemed like they were relaxed and had all the money in the world. Skoal chewing tobacco say "Always there in a pinch." ... Tobacco companies try to get people started at an early age, it affects more than one person if tobacco smoke is around someone else. ... Eventually tobacco became famous for smoking. ... In small efforts to take tobacco out of the nation's economy, tobacco is taxed, but not made illegal. ...
Advertising Tobacco to Teens Everyday we are exposed to vivid advertisements of tobacco products as we go to work, look up in the sky, or read a magazine. ... But a question one may ask is, "Why do these companies place ads in young adult magazines and target those who are underage?" ... So why are these tobacco companies placing their ads in a fashion and music oriented magazine? ... This product is sold as cut tobacco in chew pouches. ... It definitely lightens the effects that one hears about the consequences of tobacco products. ...
Yet some sponsors have created uproar within the society, these are namely alcohol and tobacco products. ... Alcohol and Tobacco companies take great advantage of this. ... Cigarette ads were banned from television in the United States in 1971 and in many other countries including Canada and Australia. ... Tobacco products have also been sponsors of sporting events for more than a century. ... With society's bias towards tobacco companies in general, I would not be against the all out ban of tobacco advertising at sporting events or stadiums. ...
*The Future Tobacco Industry* Over the years the tobacco industry has been blamed for constant problems in our society. ... Despite all the warnings, society has neglected to acknowledge tobacco as a deadly substance and the tobacco industry doesn't seem to think of tobacco as deadly, they simply see it as a profitable toxicant. ... Tobacco advertising influences people from all ages and ethic groups. ... (Lang and Marks 1996) Although the tobacco industries see these as harmless sales tactics plastering ads on billboards, where teens unconsciously see them day in and day out over ...
Jeffrey Wigand, a former vice-president of research at the number three tobacco company, Brown and Williamson, describes cigarettes and smokeless tobacco as lethal products. ... The better tasting and more addictive tobacco hooks more people on the smoking habit. ... Because tobacco has been proven to always be harmful, the FDA, if given regulatory authority, would be required to ban tobacco products from the market. ... A four-part test in use since the Supreme Court's Central Hudson decision allows such restrictions if the speech is misleading, which tobacco ads generally are, as seen...