Smoking Regulations and Children

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This paper looks at the various laws instituted by the State which are aimed at reducing teen-age smoking. It also looks at some regulations and programs which have been developed to discourage young people from taking up smoking.

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"While the regulation was not shaped solely to prevent teenaged smoking, tobacco advertising was banned from television on January 1, 1971. At the time, this was widely considered an important victory for consumers. In part, though, this ban was intended to curtail teenaged smoking. The advertising restrictions were based on the premise that fewer ads would mean fewer smokers, and that in particular, teenagers would be less inclined to smoke if they were not exposed to so many images of rugged cowboys and pretty women with cigarettes. In 1967, a PTA official stated, "The constant seduction of cigarette advertising . . . gives children the idea that cigarettes are associated with all they hold dear--beauty, popularity, sex, athletic success." After passage of the restrictions, the debate over tobacco advertising continued to be driven by such concerns even though there was remarkably little evidence that people smoke because of messages from tobacco companies."

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