How come there are alcohol commercials but not cigarette commercials?

[Clark-Kent]

 

[KevanG]

They got banned from tv and most magazines a while back. That's why you only see them in tabloids and at outdoor events. Booze is seen as not as bad so it gets to stay.

From the wiki

n 1970, Congress took their anti-smoking initiative one step further and passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on January 2, 1971.

 

[Clark-Kent]

Isn't alcohol just as harmful as cigarettes, or can be worse?

 

[KevanG]

It's what got banned. Besides, Cancer and stuff vs Liver corrosion. Cancer gets more news.

 

[ThePhantasm]

this might be what you are looking for

 

[Reek]

does colorado have MJ commercials?

 

[KevanG]

"WEED"

"It's legal now."

The End.

 

[Clark-Kent]

Weed ain't legal everywhere! But when it is, they should be allowed to make commercials like companies who promote alcohol can!

 

[KevanG]

The moral guardians will have a ****fit should that happen because...

Despite there being legal booze, cigarettes and stuff they can get that's mixed with who knows what but weed is the 'gateway' drug.

 

[warhorse78]

It's what got banned. Besides, Cancer and stuff vs Liver corrosion. Cancer gets more news.

And more funding! It's all about the G's.

 

[warhorse78]

The moral guardians will have a ****fit should that happen because...

Despite there being legal booze, cigarettes and stuff they can get that's mixed with who knows what but weed is the 'gateway' drug.

The only reason why it's a gateway drug, is because you have to go to an illegal narcotics dealer to get it. And they make their money from the harder stuff, so what happens is, kids start to go and buy some weed for the first few times. And then the dealer will push something a bit harder, (and more expensive) to try and get them hooked, which usually works. The more they come back, the more harder and more expensive stuff the dealer will push.

 

[Guts]

Imagine a cigarette ad filmed like a budweiser ad.

 

[Guts]

Replace those beers with cigarettes!

 

[O_B_Juan]

does colorado have MJ commercials?

Put them on after midnight and before 5am to make them cult classics.

 

[terry78]

Movie ratings now have to include if smoking takes place. Meanwhile alcohol can be in anything from a G rated to NC-17 rated flick with no fuss.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Movie ratings now have to include if smoking takes place. Meanwhile alcohol can be in anything from a G rated to NC-17 rated flick with no fuss.

I was watching something on ABC Family the other day, actually the kids were watching it, I was on the computer, when I looked up and saw the dad in the movie/show (again I can't remember what they were watching) had blurred out hands and I was thinking "why are his hands blurred out", well they weren't blurred out, they were blurring out the beer he was drinking.

So I guess beer consumption can't be in G-rated (for tv) movies.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Fun fact, all the anti-smoking ads you see (ie #Truth and that kind of stuff) is actually completely funded by the tobacco companies.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

lol.

 

[cronosred]

It seems odd to me that they do all these anti-smoking commercials but it's been years since I've seen an anti-drug commercial.

 

[ThePhantasm]

 

[Parker Wayne]

There are alcohol commercials but not cigarette commercials because alcohol had it's backlash before the rise of TV, which backfired with prohibition.

Cigarettes had its backlash during the 60s and 70s where we started to find more and more about how awful cigarettes were for your health, during the age of increased media. Because of that backlash, cigarette ads in both TV and magazines decreased, which led to it being discouraged in magazines and practically banned on TV (You can still air ecig commercials).

Fun fact, while there are alcohol commercials its illegal to actually drink the alcohol in commercials.

The only reason why it's a gateway drug, is because you have to go to an illegal narcotics dealer to get it. And they make their money from the harder stuff, so what happens is, kids start to go and buy some weed for the first few times. And then the dealer will push something a bit harder, (and more expensive) to try and get them hooked, which usually works. The more they come back, the more harder and more expensive stuff the dealer will push.

Yes and no. Other drugs being readily available is a possible hypothesis of why it's considered a gateway drug, but there also other reasons, such as THC releasing an heightened behavioral response to other drugs. This is called Cross-Sensitization, and it's not actually not unique to marijuana as it as alcohol and nicotine can also "prime" the brain for a heightened response to other drugs.

However, most people who use marijuana do not use "harder" sustances such as cocaine, painkillers, and heroin. In that sense, marijuana being considered a gateway drug is more or less completely overblown.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I actually only began using weed as a an adult. Never did it in high school, ect. I have never bought weed from anyone and then had them offer me something else.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Isn't alcohol just as harmful as cigarettes, or can be worse?

Alcohol can be either better or worse. Cigarettes have only detrimental effects to the user. Alcohol, in small doses, had some beneficial effects like blood thinning. However, the greater the intake, the more toxic and disruptive it becomes. In large quantities, it's actually more harmful than cigarettes, even to the point of being lethal in some cases with a single overindulgence. It's a case of pick your poison.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Is terminal cancer worse than an insta-death car crash? At least in the former you might get to live for 6 months to a year.