Tobacco_Ads

Tobacco Ads Tobacco Advertising Speech Tobacco companies are getting away with murder. Nearly 430 000 Americans die each year from smoking related diseases. An estimated 730 000 adolescent smokers will begin each year. (American Lung Association Fact Sheet. Online 1999) That should be an outrage to every American out there. Tobacco laws need to be stricter in this country and advertising of the product should be banned. Two major tobacco companies RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris spend 12 million dollars each day on tobacco advertising. These companies support the popular brands of cigarettes Camel and Marlboro. The two most highly sought after brands by teenage kids today. To say these companies don’t have an influence on our adolescents would be absurd. Parents who began smoking 30 years ago on average do not smoke the same brands of cigarettes that kids do today they tend to smoke less advertised brands.. In a study done at the Medical College of Georgia in 1998 “ showed that as many 6 year old kids could relate The Camel Advertisements to smoking as they could relate Mickey Mouse to Disney”. That right there should be enough to concern every parent out there. There tobacco, smoking, smoke, year, should, people, kids, companies, cigarettes, smokers, percent, now, every, each, die, death, american, advertising, youth, within, products, old, minors, lot, health, government, effects, done, brands, bad, another, advertisements, years, today, study