Political Advertising In America

Advertising is an over 200$ billion industry and according to Jean Kilbourne, people are exposed to over 3000 advertisements a day. Advertisements are everywhere so there is no escaping them; they are on TV, magazines, billboards, etc. These ads tell women and girls that what’s most important is how they look, and they surround us with the image of "ideal female beauty". However, this flawlessness cannot be achieved. It’s a look that’s been created through Photoshop, airbrushing, cosmetics, and computer retouching. There have been many studies done that have found a clear link between exposure to the thin ideal in the mass media to body dissatisfaction, thin ideal internalization, and eating disorders among women. Body dissatisfaction is negative thoughts that a person has about his or her own body. Thin ideal internalization is when a person believes that thinness is equivalent to attractiveness and will lead to positive life outcomes. Less than 5% of women actually have the body type that is shown of

This is particularly apparent with the effects of advertising media. Bordo points out that “miracle diet pills and videos promising to turn our body parts into steel have become as commonplace as aspirin ads,” (par.1) which influences an idea of the kind of body one should aim to achieve. Additionally, it presents the notion that, with such products, reaching one’s weight goal will come with more ease. It gives an incentive and makes people accustomed to the belief that losing weight is necessary. By exhibiting this pattern and concept that advertising media is inducing, Bordo gives insight as to why there is an influx in the desire to lose weight and to achieve it by any means necessary. She also suggests that the “ideal of the body beautiful has largely come from fashion designers and models” (par 2).With the exaltation and emphasis on the gratifying physique of a woman’s body, many young women find themselves corresponding to the ideals the fashion industry places on both its fashion and models. Remarkably enough, Borodo conveys that, not only are females following in the fashion industries’ steps, men are falling underway as well as “more ads featuring anorexic-looking young men are appearing too” (par.2). In presenting the fashion industry for what it represents and influences, Bordo effectively reveals a fellow cause of

Campaign Ads, America is highly familiar with them. Every election cycle television programing is overrun with ads for the candidates competing in that election. They have become a staple of American election fare. There are three major kinds of campaign ads: informative, comparison and negative. The informative ads tell the viewer about what the candidate stands for. While comparison ads compare the views of multiple candidates. The negative ads tend to focus on evoking emotion. The goal of the negative ads is creating political actions from the emotions evoked. Negative ads have become increasingly common over time. The major problem with negative ads is that they only truncate politics while adding nothing worthwhile. Negative

Researchers looked at more than 40,000 people living this the united states to find that 28 percent of americans use tobacco products,these includes items like tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars. Even more scary 40 percent of that 28 used more than two products. Smoking causes 480,000 deaths in the united states each year. Some may think that if they quit their health won't improve but that isn't true your health starts to improve instantly. Smoking is very harmful it kills multiple people and is very addicting so seek treatment.

About 5.6 million of Americans younger than 18 years will likely die from a tobacco-related illness if tobacco use persists at the current rate among youth in the United States (1). Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of mortality and disease in the United States (2). Approximately 480, 000 Americans die from tobacco-related diseases, while greater than 16 million Americans suffer from at least one illness caused by tobacco, each year (2).

In the 2004 presidential ad campaigns between presidential candidates Kerry and Bush used a combination of mud slinging and fluffy promotion. I choose to watch several of the ad campaigns between Kerry and Bush. I noted Operation Iraqi Freedom and the War on Terror where in high swing during this particular election year.

Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. No matter what the degree of smoking, it will increase the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, etc. In 2015, the smoking rate in the United States is 15.1%, which means 36.5 million Americans smoking currently. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. And of these deaths, more than 41,000 were due to exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke can cause the same health issue as smoking. Every year, the healthcare cost related to the smoking illness is more than $300 billion in the United States.

Therefore, the commendation of such look and shape commercializes unhealthy body image and procreates eating disorders. Unfortunately, at present the commercialism of a perfect body is encountered by almost everyone on everyday basis. The public is bombarded daily with images of glamorously thin women in commercials, on billboards, in movies in magazines and etc?According to Melanie Katzman, a consultant psychologist from New York, the media has actively defined the thin ideal as success and treats the body as a commodity. (Rhona MacDonald, 2001) It is evident that the persistent advocating of the media and the society produced a constant pursuit of thinness, which became a new religion. A study conducted by Harvard researchers has revealed the effect of media and magazines on adolescent girls in high schools. The children were exposed to fashion magazines and television commercials, and a while after were given self-rating surveys. The study found that sixty-nine percent of the girls said that magazine pictures

Cigarettes are the leading cause of preventable disease or death in the United States resulting in 480,000 per year (CDC). In comparison, there has never been a reported death due solely

Fast food chains are not only the main source of obesity but also the sources of other diseases that promotes eating disorder habits. S and R further states, Junk food allows people to eat without planning-eat not only when it is pre-set meal time, but also when they have spare time. Ingredients of junk foods give great taste and make them addictive (2012, p.9). Fast foods such as chips, donuts, soda, pizza and fries are stocked by people in the house. It makes them easier to snack it whenever they want. Since such fast foods are made up off excess sugar, salt and oil, they taste better than the home made healthy food. The excess and daily consumption of fast foods can thus lead to health problems such heart attack, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, constipation, high cholesterol and many more. These all health problems will eventually lead to obesity and other eating disorder habits.

In the realm of political advertising, there are two main categories of ads, positive and negative (Brader 2006). These categorizations usually relate to their intended purpose or emotions that are evoked. Positive ads, as the title suggests, evoke positive emotions like hope or enthusiasm (Brader 2006). While negative ads promote negative emotions, like fear, anger or anxiety. Evoking these emotions from voters are a key strategy to manipulating voters into a desired behavior. Sometimes the goal is to interest voters in campaigns or to gain votes. Positive ads typically focus on the own candidates campaign while negative campaigns usually focus on the opponent (Brader 2006). In a study by Khan (1993), it was found that 65% of ads are candidate oriented while 35% are negative and opponent oriented. When negative ads focus on the opponent, they

Tobacco use has adverse health effects on individuals. A recent report by the CDC indicated that countries like the United States lose about 480,000 people annually due to cigarette smoking (CDC, 2017). These include 49,400 people who perish due to passive smoking. The CDC claims that the deaths caused by smoking exceed those resulting from illegal drug use, car accidents, fire-related incidences, alcohol

Tobacco is the leading cause of death in the United States. Studies record that 480,000 deaths from smoking cigarettes including second hand smoke. Men has 278,544 deaths annually including second hand smoke, and women have 201,773 deaths accoriding to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) Although some smokers still live, they suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system disease, and many more harmful effects of smoking cigarettres and other tobacco related products.According to Dr. Robert N Procter “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation.”Smokers are aware of the constent damages of smoking due to advertisements, warning labels, and much more, but are addicted to the nicotine. The (FDA) Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes,

Because of the improvement of technology, it is easier and more affordable to buy cigarettes. Smoking becomes general phenomenon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), there are an estimated 42.1 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes. However, the report also said that more than 2.4 million people died in the USA annually, and over 480,000 people died because of smoking. Medical News Today (2013) said that smokers died ten years sooner than non-smoker. Besides, there are close to 20 million college students in The U.S.A (Nation Center for Education Statistic, 2015) and 30% of them smoke (The MU School of Medicine, 2013). To be

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.1