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All advertising for all tobacco products should be banned, including of course the product placement bullshit.
Other than that, and age restrictions, people should have the right to consume it. They should not have the right to force other people to consume it, as in secondhand smoke.
Same with other addictive and/or harmful products.
All advertising for all tobacco products should be banned, including of course the product placement bullshit.
Same with other addictive and/or harmful products.
Is advertising for addictive and/or harmful products really that much worse than advertising for products in general? Think about it.
(You might be predisposed to read the above as a defense of advertising, but it's quite the opposite.)
I agree that advertising is in itself part of the overall cultural problem of the system. However that doesn’t mean the specific forms or contents of advertisements aren’t more problematic than others.
I think so. Every time is see someone smoke on TV I instantly want one. I imagine it's very similar for people with gambling addiction.
Really you shouldn't be allowed to sell anything that is physically addictive. The consumer isn't choosing to buy it, they are compelled to.
How about candy advertisements? Soda? Coffee? Anything with sugar in it?
I mean yes. It's addictive and bad for your health.
Like alcohol and cigarettes, just because it's considered normal doesn't mean it should get an exception.
I think grue is trying to make you think just one step further:
ALL advertising is bad. It's something we just started accepting as being nearly everwhere in society, but it's ALL bad. It uses an immoral, bastardization of psychology and sociology to force messages on a populace designed to make them buy and consume more shit they don't need.
They pollute our streets, our buildings, our sky's. They flood our airwaves, our internet, even new technology like phones and TV's will have them hard baked in. Ads showing people with happy, full, contented lives that you could have too if only you bought this shiny product!