The Ban on Tobacco Ads

Essay # 7750

Advertising > Tobacco
Communication > Journalism
Communication > Mass Media

This paper discusses the issue of banning tobacco ads by the New York Times newspaper and questions whether it was the correct thing to do.

790 words () | 0 sources | MLA | 2002 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines why the New York Times banned cigarette advertising. The writer discusses how the banning of tobacco ads reduces the pressures on children to take up smoking and leaves room for advertisements warning the readers against the dangers of smoking. In addition the way in which banning of these ads may prevent nonsmokers who buy The New York Times, from involuntarily contributing to the tobacco industry, is also discussed.

From the Paper:

"Little by little, cigarette advertising has been disappearing from American newspapers and magazines. This trend began more than two years ago when the first national newspaper, The New York Times, officially banned tobacco advertising. At the same time, local newspapers such as the Seattle Times and Portland Organdie copied the national newspaper."