Some countries have laws that forbid advertising campaigns for tobacco and alcohol on TV. Do you agree or disagree with these laws? Explain your opinion, and support it with reasons. Have you ever seen an actor is smoking on a TV commercial? If you have seen that commercial, you must be older than 30 years old. In 1971, the U.S. Congress passed an act for the prohibition of tobacco advertisement on TV commercial. I think that was one of the best changes of broadcasting history. In Korea, the greatest change was little late. Right after the government revised the National Health Promotion Law in 2000. Three major broadcasting companies volunteered to prohibit smoking on TV dramas. In accordance with the law, tobacco advertisements on TV are illegal now. Think about what happen in 2001. The Minister of Health and Welfare did a survey about how many students are smoking. The result of the survey was amazing. In 1997, 35% of male students in high school were smoking. After the revision of the law, the number of the students falls off to 16.2%. Students are vulnerable to visual information. Most of actors/actresses are very gorgeous. When they are smoking on TV, young teenagers think that smoking itself is gorgeous. The stars are their idols or icons and juveniles want to be the star. That is one of the reason that we need to get rid of tobacco commercial from the TV. Teenagers are not careful as much as adults. They are not grown enough to think about the consequence of smoking before they do. In addition, people, especially young high school students, want to do what they are not allowed to do. All over the world, alcoholic beverages are strictly forbidden to minors because it causes more serious damage to the juveniles. Alcohol and tobacco cause not only physical but also mental and social problems. If you smoke, over hundreds of toxic materials will attack your body includes all of your major organs. Besides, when you get drunk, innumerable brain cells will be disrupted. It is really serious problem for the growing boys and girls. There is no reason to show them the poison on the embellished commercial. In fact, tobacco and alcohol are harmful to everybody even if they are grown up. Everybody knows that those are not good for your health. Unfortunately, however, both of them are addictive. Smoking people always think they need to quit but that is it. They realized the truth when they went too far. The purpose of advertisement is to make people buy their product. In other word, the purpose of tobacco and alcohol advertisement is to kill your brain cells and disable your main organs. Do you still want to smoke? |
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