Comments on: The Rise and everlasting effects of Cigarette Advertisments. http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:02:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jenna G. http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-323 Jenna G. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:20:22 +0000 http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-323 Good comments, guys. Good comments, guys.

]]> By: english131blog http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-247 english131blog Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:49:35 +0000 http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-247 I wrote about this topic also, Why not ban cigaretts, all together. So what if there was someone like al capone, Weed is illegal and many still do it, SOME study's show that weed is less dangerous than cigarettes http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/ats-sfn051706.php .... i dont really care if your a smoker or not, this is about advertising and even though people say ads are cut down because its illegal to ad on the tv the fact is that ... "The 1998 legal settlement between the states and the tobacco companies prohibited the tobacco companies from taking "any action, directly or indirectly, to target youth... in the advertising, promotion or marketing of tobacco products." However, since the settlement, the tobacco companies have increased their cigarette marketing expenditures by 125 percent to a record $15.1 billion a year, or $41.5 million a day, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Much of this marketing is still targeted at kids. thats after TV ads were a no no.... but they find other ways to advertise, I mean its there Business. TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION ... Say if you made a product and 50 years later you learn it kills, what would you do???? Dennis Comment # 1 I wrote about this topic also, Why not ban cigaretts, all together. So what if there was someone like al capone, Weed is illegal and many still do it, SOME study’s show that weed is less dangerous than cigarettes http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/ats-sfn051706.php …. i dont really care if your a smoker or not, this is about advertising and even though people say ads are cut down because its illegal to ad on the tv the fact is that …

“The 1998 legal settlement between the states and the tobacco companies prohibited the tobacco companies from taking “any action, directly or indirectly, to target youth… in the advertising, promotion or marketing of tobacco products.” However, since the settlement, the tobacco companies have increased their cigarette marketing expenditures by 125 percent to a record $15.1 billion a year, or $41.5 million a day, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Much of this marketing is still targeted at kids.

thats after TV ads were a no no…. but they find other ways to advertise, I mean its there Business. TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION … Say if you made a product and 50 years later you learn it kills, what would you do????

Dennis Comment # 1

]]> By: english131blog http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-244 english131blog Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:14:50 +0000 http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-244 Well to my understanding when I read a few articles is that cigarette advertising has already been limited, because now ad companies can't run adv. for cigarettes on television. and i rarely see cigarette ads in any newspapers or magazines so i guess it has been cut down significantly in the past 50 years. because back in the 1920s cigarette ads were posted in very public places for any one and any age to see it. but now we have like non smoking areas for certain people and a smoking area in restaurants. We could make cigarettes illegal. i mean it is just as bad as marijuana if not worse. but i think the outcome would be the same as the prohibition act of 1920 where alcohol was prohibited but people, like the infamous Al Capone, still got alcohol illegally and the people selling that alcohol became rich, then pretty soon alcohol became legal again in 1933 because the government would rather have some money from alcohol sales than a group of gangsters. The problem with making it illegal is that it would be impossible to enforce the law just as it was impossible to enforce the prohibition act. Yasmin Saleh Well to my understanding when I read a few articles is that cigarette advertising has already been limited, because now ad companies can’t run adv. for cigarettes on television. and i rarely see cigarette ads in any newspapers or magazines so i guess it has been cut down significantly in the past 50 years. because back in the 1920s cigarette ads were posted in very public places for any one and any age to see it. but now we have like non smoking areas for certain people and a smoking area in restaurants.
We could make cigarettes illegal. i mean it is just as bad as marijuana if not worse. but i think the outcome would be the same as the prohibition act of 1920 where alcohol was prohibited but people, like the infamous Al Capone, still got alcohol illegally and the people selling that alcohol became rich, then pretty soon alcohol became legal again in 1933 because the government would rather have some money from alcohol sales than a group of gangsters. The problem with making it illegal is that it would be impossible to enforce the law just as it was impossible to enforce the prohibition act.

Yasmin Saleh

]]> By: Jenna G. http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-239 Jenna G. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:41:20 +0000 http://english131blog.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-rise-and-everlasting-effects-of-cigarette-advertisments/#comment-239 Interesting, Yasmin. So, cigarettes do not need formal advertising because A) they are addictive and B) they are available to buy. So all it takes is for cigarettes to appeal to someone and they are hooked. So...my question is should we limit advertisting for cigarettes all together? Or should we make smoking illegal? Interesting, Yasmin. So, cigarettes do not need formal advertising because A) they are addictive and B) they are available to buy. So all it takes is for cigarettes to appeal to someone and they are hooked. So…my question is should we limit advertisting for cigarettes all together? Or should we make smoking illegal?

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