The Influences of Smoking Adve

the Influences of Youth on Smoking Advertisements

In the past 100 years of American history, tobacco

use has been glamorized in countless numbers of

advertisements. The so-called “smoker’s lifestyle” has

become some kind of sub-culture that attracts thousands

of people, mainly teens (Carol, 1988), everyday.

Although the well-informed general public know, for a

fact, that smoking causes cancer, people still smoke.

The decision that marked Joe Camel as an unhealthy teen

icon was the first step in big tobacco companies

admitting that cigarettes are unhealthy (Jacobson,

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations are

in the process of limiting cigarette magazine

advertisements to only "tombstone advertisements":

plain black and white advertisements that contain no

graphics or imagery. The purpose of this legislation

was to abolish advertising that linked cigarette

smoking to attractive lifestyles and models, as well as

terminate the use of characters such as Joe Camel that

might be especially appealing to children (Kelly,

So what makes smokers want to smoke? In a recent

study (Zinser, 1994) it was discovere

limiting underage exposure to tobacco advertising,

start the habit again. Of all consumer products,

campaigns, community activities, school based

large part responsible for youth smoking. If this

teens, who smoke. If there is an actual concern for

Durrant, L. (1994). This Bud’s not for you:

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