The first step in reducing under age smoking is by banning cigarette advertisements. However, tobacco companies sometimes claim t

Another way to decrease under age smoking is by making cigarettes more expensive to buy. In 1996, 1.2 million people out of 1.8 millions were daily smokers under the age of eighteen (Ojeda, Opposing View Points). Raising the price of tobacco products through taxation is one of the fastest and most effective ways to discourage children and youths from starting to smoke and to encourage smokers to quit. A study published in the September 2000 issued of Preventive Medicine predicts that if cigarette taxes are raised by one dollar per pack, more than 2.3 million fewer Americans will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases in the next forty years and an increase of only twenty cents per pack would save over a million lives in the next four decades (Bork, Opposing View Points). Raising prices through taxation harms lower-income smokers. Therefore, more nonsmokers will choose not to start smoking and more smokers will choose to quit especially teenagers because of their low income.

hat the First Amendment makes such an advertising ban unconstitutional (Worsnop, CQ Researcher). The First Amendment states, " Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". Even though such claims were made, increased tobacco awareness has already caused the courts to prohibit tobacco advertising on television and radio. But prohibiting tobacco advertising on television and radio has little effect because the tobacco companies will transfer their resources to other types or promotions. Many fashion magazi

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