Do you think alcohol or cigarette advertising be allowed or banned?!
Answers: i personally think it should be allowed, but what is your opinion and why?
Do we cite health reasons, or prop up the potential harm to children (God bless 'em) as the reason to ban them? There's a hundred things I think we should shield children from seeing. Especially when we are trying to influence people to consume or use something that is bad for humans: Twinkies for the "plus sizes," medicines pushed by big money companies ignorantly approved by the FDA, glues which are abused, sexual attitudes that encourage 10 -12 year-old children to "experiment/explore," and even more so, products pushed by charlatans/celebraties that claim to do everything from lose weight, cure diseases and fix problems, when all they do is rob people of their money!
All of these people claim protection under the freedom of speech. The very act of interrupting every program on television to sell or influence the audience is harmful. Interruptions every 3 to 4 minutes and yet we wonder at the cause of ADD among children in the US? It is precisely the frequent interruptions that are so important to the profiteers! If the commercials were all consolidated and shown before or after a program, we nor our children would pay near as much attention and be less influenced by the garbage being peddled. The majority would disappear from the tv room until the next program showing. Imagine trying to read a book, and after every page or show, put down the book, read something else, or do something else then five minutes later return to your original book. Wouldn't our concentration become weak! (All European countries I've been in do not break-in to programming with commercials; they are are run before and after a show, and they don't have a lack of advertisers either!).
There was a time when public television was supported predominantly through commercials. Today, everyone in the US "pays" for cable or satellite. Commercials just provide an additional stream of income to old Ted's pockets and other interests! Regardless, at a minimum, if programs sources "told" advertisers their commercials would no longer interrupt programming, that's the way it would be. Why don't we, as consumers, demand this simple change to improve our youth's concentration?
Bottom line: I'm not so opposed to ads in a free market society, but our consumer laws should be stronger to protect us: No lies/misrepresentations and change delivery methods and processes. Do what the government claims to be doing - protecting us from harmful effects of advertising!!
i think there is no right to ban these ads. i mean i turn on the tv and see underwear and sex commercials all the time do i want my kids to see that? hell no!! just the world we live in. by the way i love camel joe!
Ooh goody. Free points for expressing my opinion, and I can't get in trouble for doing so!
Not alcoholic drinks. But it should be a punishable crime to become drunk. Because it can be a good thing. . . but a potentially dangerous one.
Not only should advertising tobacco be illegal, so should the actual thing. Because smoking kills. A bunch of people. Some doctors say it is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S.
It should be allowed. Freedom isn't like it used to be.
Government has the control and continues to take
freedoms away, one way or another.
its hard for companies to survive if they are not allowed to advertise. obviously advertising during family shows, or towards kids is wrong. id even be ok with alcohol or smoking ads being banned before 9pm or something like that if it helps keep kids from getting bad ideas. i dont think it would be fair to ban them completely though.