Cigarette Adds Should Be Banned From The Media

"Okay yes, people do die in car crashes but they do not give you cancer, make it hard for someone to breathe, or reduce life expectancy." Being trapped in a car after a car accident can indeed make it hard to breathe and I think the 40,000 people in the U.S. who died in automobile crashes last year had their life expectancies shortened by cars. "When automobiles are advertised, there is something positive to say about them. They transport people from one location to another, manufacturers are coming up with more fuel efficient models and the safety of many vehicles is being improved. When cigarettes are advertised, there is absolutely nothing good to say about them." Automobiles and cigarettes are actually remarkably similar. They both provide a service to the user. Automobile driver can move easiy and quickly from one place to another and cigarrete users can become very relaxed after they have smoked a cigarrete. And both products carry a significant risk. Thousands die every year in car crashes and thousands die every year due to lung cancer. They are similar in that a person of age has every right to use the product if they please. And whether it be a car company or a cigarette company, they both have the right to advertise their respective products. "They influence children in a negative way and put many lives in danger; people that don't even smoke. 53,800 people a year die from second hand smoking." Please reas this excerpt from http://www.accidentattorneys.com... "one pedestrian is injured by a vehicle ever 8 minutes, and one pedestrian dies as a result of injuries from an accident with a vehicle ever 111 minutes. That's more than 1 per hour-and-a-half. In the United States, 5,000 pedestrians die each year as a result of these accidents, and over 60,000 more are injured." These are people who did not choose to drive an automobile yet were injured or killed by one anyways. Earily similar to those who have died as a result of second hand smoke. Would you still wish to allow companies to advertise cars. Look at how many people they kill or injure every year. What is the diference between them and cigarrete ads? Nothing. "Some children are not lucky enough to have guidance from a parent or guardian, so how are the supposed to know any differently if they are told by television commercials and radio ads that cigarettes are good?" And what about people in T.V. shows or movies who smoke? Should that be banned? And what about violence on T.V. or movies? Is that to be banned too? Where do we stop? "If a product is harmful to a person's health it should not be advertised in a positive way." I have shown conclusively that automobiles can be very harmful to one's health. Virtually anything can become harmful to one's healt actually. Should football or basketball not be advertised as they can certainly have adverse affects on one's health? How about sky diving? Should companies not be allowed to advertise sky diving because people can get hurt or die? And I always see army and navy commercial nowadays. You can't deny that thousands of people die in combat every year. But those are certainly advertised in a positive way. Where are we to draw the line?