Cigarette avdertisement

Reasons Cigarette Advertising Should Be Banned

 

 In Japan, it is normal for us to buy cigarette in convenience stores and vending machines. In other words, it is also easy for children to buy cigarette in these stores although we can not buy cigarette until they will be 20years old. Furthermore, cigarette companies advertise their products in TV commercial, train, bus, web site, store and vending machine. And today, one of the famous Japanese cigarette company (JAPAN TOBACCO INC.) advertises their volunteer and corporate support of the arts in TV commercial to raise their company’s image. But, I think that government should ban cigarette advertising. So, I have some reasons about that.

 First, smoking can have many problems in our health. For example, if we smoke cigarette fluently, a risk of lung cancer will be raised and other cancers. According to a survey(2012), amount of person who died by smoking is about 120000 people per year. The survey was collected by Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. If you do not want to die by cancer, it is obvious that you should not smoke.

 Second, if we allow cigarette companies to advertise their products on TV, newspaper, magazine and journal, it would affect the children more bad. For example, their advertisements recommend that children to smoke, because advertisements are very cool and trendy. And children have a desire to do any forbidden things like a smoking. The average of smoking experience about Japanese high school students show that over 50% male students and around 30% female students have an experience of smoking. In junior high school students case, one- third students also have an experience of smoking. This result does not have no connection with cigarette advertisements, because advertisements are inflammatory for children.

 Third, almost all cigarette advertising pictures are pictures that men stand with smoking. It is also a big problem, smoking while walking makes small children dangerous. For example, it is possible for small children to be burnt by flam of cigarette when people smoke while walking, because a position of the cigarette is close in children’s face. In fact, some small children were burnt by the flame. And I have heard that one child lost the sight of one eyes to be burnt. In Japanese, some local governments enacted street smoking ban ordinance for protecting small children.

Fourth, smoking also has not only cancers but also other problem. One of the problem is passive smoking. The passive smoking gives some health problems to us. For example, sore throat, cough, headache, nausea and asthma. According to WHO, the amount of person who died by passive smoking is about 600000people all over the world.   

 In my conclusion, smoking has many problems and dangerous. In other words, it has no redeeming features.

 Finally, government must ban cigarette advertisement as soon as possible to protect children and other people’s health. And the advertisement affect a bad influence. If they do not, many people will die because of smoking and passive smoking.