The End of Television Tobacco and the Outcome Now
For many years, cigarette ads were a staple of television advertising. That is long gone.
As the dangers of tobacco smoking were slowly discovered and revealed, the television networks began to feel that the cigarette ads were not the type of ads they wanted to sponsor their programming. With most people starting to smoke cigarettes while still in their teen years, television did not want to condone a dangerous, almost always addictive behavior, and rightly so.
The ads often glamorized smoking. The ads always showed attractive men and women, often seductively, enjoying smoking. It certainly made smoking out to be an enticing and desirable thing to do.
However, the last cigarette television ad was roughly around thirty years ago. Teen cigarette smoking still exists, but it has declined. Fewer teens smoke now compared to twenty five or thirty years ago. Is it because of the lack of television ads alone? Maybe not, but at least it’s not always seducing them. Early education about the dangers of smoking can help.
As long as the numbers have decreased, it is a good sign. Teens who smoke tend to think it makes them look and feel grown up, but hopefully, that deception will fade.
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