Kentucky's Youth and Teen Smoking

Some do not understand how dangerous it is to smoke and these type of advertisements really help people get an understanding on how affecting it can be to your body. When young adults and teens smoke, they don’t understand that it will affect them long term. Like the picture says, 90% of the americans that die each year due to smoking are people that started as teens. The message across this picture is more than just having smokers stop, it wants people to stop before it causes a disease that can kill them. There are so many different diseases that can be caused by smoking. People think it is hard to get lung cancer and if they stop smoking before they get old that it won’t affect them but they are wrong, smoking has many long term effects that could possibly change someone’s life forever.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 18.5% of adult in Texas smoke cigarette. Among all 50 States, Texas ranks 27th for having such a high percentile of current adult smokers, and ranked 31st in mortality rate amongst the 50 States in the USA, (CDC, 2010). The incidence of smokers is high in adults aged 25-44, in males who do not complete high school degree, and in American Indian/Alaska Native. (CDC, 2010). Unfortunately, Texas ranks high among

We know that smoking is bad and what ingredients they put in a cigarette, but why do people still do it. This advertisement was called by many throughout the internet, “the best anti-smoking ad ever”. This campaign filmed children walking up to adult smokers, asking them for a light. Every adult took the opportunity to remind the children

In our communities, the youth can easily identified any of tobacco’s product. The author, Steven Reinberg, published , Tobacco Companies Targeting Teens, Study Says, states that the tobacco product, Marlboro, is highly purchased by high school students according to usnews.com. Mr. McGoldrick states that the three brands, 90 percent is being marketed. Most companies hold their ground saying that their tobacco products are not meant to bought by youth, but somehow still managed to in our children’s hands, in his article, Tobacco Companies Targeting Teens, Study Says (steven Reinberg). According to Erin Brodwin, author of “Tobacco Companies Still Target Youth despite A Globally Treaty”, states that children all over the world can identify the tobacco brands. Not only are children picking up their ideas from television, but also from public. Children knowing which brands shows how serious the addiction can be. Seeing how easily the product being shown to the youth is another way of starting. If less smokers are seen in public, the lower the numbers will

Cigarette advertising has changed throughout history from how it has been advertised, what is being advertised, and who the intended audience is. In the 60’s seeing a cigarette advertisement in the Sunday paper would just be like any other advertisement, but recent generations would be appalled to see such a gruesome product being publicized. The annual deaths from smoking cigarettes are increasing each year and doctors and scientist are teaming together to try and help prevent more. Realizing that advertising may be playing a role the controversy over cigarette advertising has lead to the censoring of harmful products in other public advertising which still has a lasting effect today.

The main problem that does not help convincing our teens that smoking is bad for them is the public media. We see it in commercials, magazines adds, billboards and all over the internet. We need to stop all these type of advertisements, we need to focus on positive advertisement. Why not advertise the consequences of smoking? How we harm our body and the people around us. Kids think it's cool to smoke and that the younger they are, the cooler they think they look. We need to educate our teens by having mandatory smoking prevention programs at school. Once a teen tries their first cigarette, those who continue to smoke will typically hang out with the same-aged friends as their steady source of cigarettes and tobacco (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 183). Typically, an increase in price of tobacco products of 10% causes a fall in smoking of 4% in adults and 6% in children (Jamrozik, 760). Once we increase the price of tobacco products, it will be difficult for our teens to

cigarettes  used  to  symbolize  wealth  and status in society. Today, smoking seems to be more of a

People have been constantly made aware of the dangers of smoking their whole lives. The warnings are shown in blaring, edgy commercials, obscenely blunt labels, and methodically indoctrinated through numerous programs at schools. Despite this, people still choose to smoke and callously ignore the unending dire warnings that smoking is a leading cause of cancer, numerous other debilitating health problems, bad personal hygiene and social disgrace. Most people however, are also very much unaware that smoking can have adverse effects on the animals around them. The advertisement “Catmageddon” presented by Truth Orange does a powerful job in persuading young adults to not smoke though the use of logos, pathos, and ethos.

A policy alternative is to ban tobacco advertisement within 1000 feet from any elementary, middle, high school, or alternative school in Southeast Michigan. Forms of advertisement tobacco companies use to reach minors are billboards near the school, advertisements in any gas station near schools, Facebook, magazines that minors read, and sending coupons to households where minors live, or send direct mail to minors without verifying their age. It is now well-known that over eighty percent of all smokers become addicted to tobacco products before they reach the legal age to smoke” (Tobacco Freedom, 2001). The United States government puts laws and regulations in place against tobacco companies to show America that they are doing something about

Their study’s goal was to show a link between tobacco advertisements and smoking uptake amongst people who otherwise would not have smoked, from 1993 to 1996. Pierce and colleagues findings were that “from these data, we estimate that 34% of all experimentation in California between 1993 and 1996 can be attributed to tobacco promotional activities. Nationally, this would be over 700000 adolescents each year.” The generalizability of this study shows how easily influenced people are by tobacco advertisements, and how many people are affected by these ads every

Advertising influences smoking behavior in children and teenagers (Smoking & Tobacco Use). A way to tactical this issue is to employ informative entertaining anti-smoking advertisements for young adults (Clives and Andy). For example, a popular television channel for young adults is the CW. Incorporating popular themes, concepts, and actors from frequently watched shows from CW would be good persuasive tool. Using these ideas for commercial use against tobacco industry would deliver the message more clearly and be more relatable to adolescents and young

The authors point out how anti-smoking advertisements do not send a clear message to the students to understand how smoking can impact their health. It seems that the advertisements trick people by sending the wrong message, such as demonstrating that smoking is not as bad as it seems that the more the students see those advertisements, the more propense for the students to smoke. The source is relevant to my hypothesis because it demonstrates that teenagers are unaware of the health consequences that they can get. The author’s goal is for teenagers to understand anti-smoking messages are not explicit and are not demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks that smoking cause. The authors conclude that new advertisements need to be more carefully evaluated for teenagers to recognize that their intentions reflect undesirable outcome in the antismoking advertainments for teenagers to understand smoking and the inevitable result that can be provoked due to smoking.

While Sanders-Jackson et al., (2015a) examined the effects of televised warning statements, Villanti et al. (2015) focused on the impact of print advertisements. Villanti et al. (2015) conducted a randomized controlled trial in a national sample of young adults (ages 18-34) from an online panel survey in 2013. Possibly inspired by the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969 banning cigarette ads in the media, this article examined

Advertising for tobacco is another source that cause teenagers smoke and adults smoke. Recently, tobacco companies have found new ways to promote their products to youth. They support their sporting events, concerts and movie. Many people favor idols or stars smoke in the movies and they seems very cool. And Teenagers are curious about imitation. Smoke containing nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. In fact, nicotine is a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer. What is more, secondhand smoke can be harmful in many ways and it ruins thousands of non-smoking people, children's health. The US Surgeon General and the US Food and Drug Administration are among those who have examined the evidence and concluded that tobacco advertising does increase overall consumption. If we ban adverts on tobacco products, they will gradually lose their appeal, because they won't symbolize anything "cool", "smart" or "amazing". Tobacco products will become ordinary consumption goods and thus the number of young people who take up smoking in order to "be somebody" will decrease.

To make matters worse, the tobacco companies are making millions from teen smokers. Tobacco companies use advertising to manipulate both teens and adults. They present images that are hard to shake, even when you know the truth. Have you ever seen a cigarette ad where people are wrinkled, middle-aged or coughing and in the hospital dying of lung cancer? Of course not! In most ads, smokers are shown the way that teens would like to be: attractive and hip, sophisticated and elegant, or rebellious.