Source: America on Track
In conclusion, the government has set reasonable preventions against the companies that supply the country with its need for cigarettes, but in my opinion, it is not enough. Yes, it has impacted their income greatly, but even someone on the street smoking cigarettes is advertising them, like a nike swoosh on a t shirt. For these cigarette companies to feel a permanent hit in their income I believe that it will take time, as in the next generation and the next generation after that will be much smarter with their choices.
To summarize my evidence, the cigarette companies have been massively impacted by advertising bans, and it’s only going to get worse. As the government is thinking of implementing more laws to show that cigarettes do more bad than good. As said in one of my articles, the University of South Carolina has already suggested to the government that “ Tobacco warning labels that include graphic pictures of the health consequences of smoking are more effective than text-only warnings”, which the government has a possibility of reopening the case in the upcoming years.
Not only has their income been impacted severely, but the cigarette companies have already had their peak in the amount of people that have used their product a long time ago. The peak of Americans using cigarettes was in the 60s, and early 70s, until the government banned the advertising of cigarettes on TV and radio on January 2nd, 1971. So the last two or three generations have been the ones that have mainly used cigarettes, because there really wasn’t any ban on cigarettes back then. But now due to FDA and other government run corporations stopping them, they will not get a grasp on as many as they did back in the day: with teens.
Many use the saying out with the old, and in with the new. This can be used for the use of tobacco today, as things are changing immensely. Instead of cigarettes today, the new epidemic is E-cigarettes, or reusable, refillable ways to smoke. But that, is a whole another project.
