The answer may be that the magazine publisher takes money to publish tobacco ads or even owns another company that makes cigarettes. Media heavily promote unhealthy foods while at the same time telling people they need to lose weight and be thin. Heavy media use can also take time away from physical activity. Studies show that girls of all ages worry about their weight. Many of them are starting to diet at early ages.
Media can promote an unrealistic image of how people look.
Violence Children learn their attitudes about violence at a very young age and these attitudes tend to last. Although TV violence has been studied the most, researchers are finding that violence in other media impacts children and teens in many of the same harmful ways. From media violence children learn to behave aggressively toward others. They are taught to use violence instead of self-control to take care of problems or conflicts. Children who see a lot of violence from movies, TV shows, or video games may become more fearful and look at the real world as a mean and scary place.