How Does Tobacco Advertising Affect Children

Tobacco companies advertise in magazines, promote their products in convenience stores and market their brands through websites and social networks. Many of these tobacco industries get publicity and attract more young customers when using the newly in media to promote their products. Many of these tobacco companies don’t understand that tobacco advertising is a huge public health issue that increases smoking. Tobacco company advertising and promoting is the start of the use of tobacco among teenagers. Now, these media and magazine advertisements about cigars have caused teenagers to be exposed to cigarette advertising. Not only that but also these teenagers find ads appealing and also increase their desire to smoke. Cigarette companies spent about $8.37 billion on advertising and promotional expenses in the United States in 2011.

The United States’ economy appears large and formidable to foreign countries, but it is actually a delicate balance. One of the key contributors to the balance of the economy is tobacco. Tobacco has played a role in global economic ties since the discovery of the Americas. Instantly popularized across the world, it has become a staple crop for many countries. Recently, however, political leaders have been murmuring of making tobacco illegal due to its health effects. The legality of tobacco is essential because it has several health benefits, employs countless workers, and contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars to the global economy.

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

Since the first major lawsuit settled against tobacco companies in 1998, there has been much controversy over whether or not these lawsuits are justified. On the pro side of the argument there is much evidence to support that the tobacco industries have long known about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Furthermore that this knowledge warrants the need for compensation. In addition the industry has concealed this knowledge from the public. On the con side of the argument evidence shows that these lawsuits have been based on false claims primarily in regard to health care costs for smokers. Furthermore, the regulations set by the settlement of the 1998 multistate lawsuit have established a legal president which allows individuals

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Objections to this new policy might be met with the fact that use of tobacco

Although it was not previously covered before, a FDA ruling in 2016 declared the Center for Tobacco Products the authority to cover any product that meets the requirements set to define a product as tobacco. Because of this, the FDA regulates the manufacture, packaging, labeling,

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California's legislative experience exemplifies the role of tobacco interests. For instance, Proposition 99, an initiative petition for a 25-cent growth in tobacco tax per package with additional profit devoted to study, needy care, and anti-tobacco education, was accepted by the voters in 1988 only after long and unsuccessful attempt to development tobacco taxation and community education about tobacco over federal regulation (Chaloupka, Straif, and Leon, 236). Fearing the innate power of anti-smoking education, tobacco interests have worked to reduce the percentage of the monies allocated to the public education campaign that has contributed to the strong decline in smoking prevalence. The tobacco industry has recruited surprising allies,

Tobacco is one of the world's dangerous drug which is haunting human lives to death. Over a billion adults are addicted to this drug and wasting their money, time and health. Nowadays there has been an ongoing debate/discussion among many people about the role of government in restricting the usage of Tobacco and thereby safeguarding the health of the public. In my personal opinion, both government and the Individual together needs to work to overcome this problem.

The use of tobacco is a very controversial topic here in the United States. The harmful side effects of tobacco are well known and consequently, many believe that it should be outlawed. Though this has not yet occurred, constant regulations on the industry and

Fortunately, the tobacco industry's behavior is likely to change due to the increasing legal and societal pressures. Much legislation has been imposed to tobacco firms based on codes of behavior, different government strategies and litigations, especially after 1980 where anti-smoking groups reactions, led to higher restrictions throughout

How it had started was On November twenty third, 1998, forty-six states, as well as American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, entered into a binding licit accidence with the most astronomically immense manufacturers of tobacco in the United States. In addition to payments to the states of more than $206 billion over twenty-five years, making it the most sizably voluminous civil settlements in the United States, tobacco manufacturers concurred to paramount circumscriptions on their advertising and marketing activities, and a range of other restrictive and prescriptive measures aimed at reducing youth access to, and consumption of, cigarettes. In return for these concessions, the accidence exempted the tobacco companies from liability in the future for medical expenses issued by the states as the result of tobacco-cognate illnesses. It settled all pending consumer aegis and antitrust lawsuits, relinquishing tobacco manufacturers from liability for "past, present and certain future

One of the most prominent crops grown in the United States is tobacco. It has been grown and cultivated in the eastern portion of the United States since before this country’s conception. As a result, it was also one of the first goods to be taxed after the conception of this country. This tax would be the first excise tax that was introduced in the United States. It came as a portion of a tax package proposed in 1974 by the Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Since then, taxes on tobacco have come, gone, risen, and lowered. However, the reasoning behind the taxation changed from increasing government revenue to deterring consumption with the publication of the 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. In this report, the U.S. Surgeon General established that cigarette smoking is, “a cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer in men, a probable cause of lung cancer in woman, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and generates enormous individual and social costs. Indeed, estimated external costs of cigarette smoking are over \$300 billion per year.\footnote{This figure includes around \$170 billion in direct medical costs \citep{Xu2015}, the majority of which are payed for by public programs, and over \$156 billion in productivity lost to decreased health and premature death \citep{U.S.DepartmentofHealthandHumanServices2014}.}