Tabacco Should Be Banned Essay

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The tabacco advertising ban was implemented in India on February 6, 2001 by the government. This prohibited the tabacco companies from any kind of advertising and sponsoring of any team and cultural event. This ban was impose with the purpose to discourage teenager from smoking and start an anti-tabacco campaign.
According to the World Health Organization, tabacco companies are responsible for millions of death, a number that will only continue to raise and be around the 10 million death in 2030.
Internal industry documents released in the U.S., revealed that the target consumer where people from ages 14-24. And that some of the advertising, where directed to children, and the animation and animal they use were very appealing to them, and would be …show more content…

Also in sports like Formula 1, their biggest sponsor is a tabacco company, Marlboro. This sport is very popular with teenager in India. And to say the least, India is the third largest producer of tabacco in the world.
Researches have been made on the advertisement ban on tabacco companies. According to this researches, the money tabacco companies spend on advertisement have the minimum effect on the consumption of tabacco.
In my opinion, the advertisement ban on tabacco really have little effect. Instead of a ban, it should always be enforce that over half of the advertising should be directed on how harmful tabacco is to the health, the horrible diseases it can cause, and the painful death and he end of that road, and let people, after seen that, decide on their own whether to smoke or not. Wanted or not, cigarette companies do account for many jobs and money into the economy.
So as long as people have all the information they need to make a choice, I say the ban is irrelevant, and with very little

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