Environment of Business Law September 26‚ 2012 To Regulate or Not to Regulate Junk Foods Advertising Aimed at Children? United States faces the risk that the percentage of obesity among children will increase. The percentage of children and adolescents who suffer from this epidemic is 17% (CDC). One generation ago‚ the rate was three times less than now. The number of obese children is continuously growing‚ which may cause a danger to children and the future of the country. The risk of obesity
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need for regulation of advertising aimed at children is generally acknowledged. And that happens because children are a very specific target group with special features due to young age. Children do not have the skills to critique advertisements and are very fooled by them. They cannot recognize if all these things advertised are useful or not. Advertisements influence children in a negative way most of the times. For example‚ junk food advertisements lead to obesity. Advertising for toys and clothing
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A great deal of advertising on television is aimed at children‚ promoting not only toys and sweets but also products such as food‚ drink‚ music‚ films and clothing to young consumers from toddlers to teenagers. Increasingly‚ this practice is coming under criticism from parents’ organisations‚ politicians and pressure groups in many countries. Many western countries have currently imposed national restrictions‚ and these have also been proposed in most other European Union countries and in the USA
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How on earth did we come to this? We protect our children obsessively from every harm‚ we vet every carer‚ teacher or medic with whom they come into contact‚ we fret about their education‚ their development. Yet despite all this‚ one group‚ which in no way has their best interests at heart‚ has almost unfettered access. We seem to take it for granted that advertisers and marketeers are allowed to groom even the youngest children. Before children have even developed a proper sense of their own identity
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were 5‚500 TV advertisements and children who watching advertisements between 2 - 11 years old accounted for 22% (Cartere 2009). The roles of children in modern society are changing. Children continually assume larger roles in their homes and are becoming more involved in the shopping habits of the household. According to a survey‚ there are six most popular subscription advertising channels between children zero to twelve year-old were obtained from an advertising information company‚ and included
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treat their children as their number one priority‚ and they are often obsessed with the child’s protection‚ be it from an illness‚ danger and even certain people. Despite all this protection‚ we allow our children to be allured into the ’wonderful’ world of advertising. From such an early age we are told by our parents ’don’t talk to strangers’. How is it that after 30 seconds of TV‚ associating products with our favourite characters or even glancing at a poster in the street‚ our children are instantly
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" The United States of America is a government established in the context of calls for independence from what was believed to be a tyranny of the British government. From this foundation‚ we have birthed core American values‚ freedom chief among them. This has manifested itself within the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights that states that as citizens of America we have the right to free speech. Flash forward to today‚ and this amendment has been argued over time and time again‚ for how much
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Growing Problem in America: Advertising to Children and its Detrimental Effects on Society [ABSTRACT] Companies view children as a major market force‚ and they have been targeted intensely through marketing and advertising efforts. These efforts have created their own genre of food‚ a once nonexistent category created by media efforts to make profit‚ called “kids food”. These foods are against dietary recommendations‚ extremely high in sugar and fat‚ and appeal to children through their fun shapes
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Advertising today focuses on specific targeted demographic groups. There is a direct focus on marketing products to young consumers. This age group sees the commercials‚ but does not really understand the directed message. This can have an adverse effect on the way children interpret and understand the message being presented to them. "The average American child sees more than 40‚000 commercials a year‚ and advertisers spend more than $12 billion annually marketing to themdouble the amount of
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Bernier Advertising to Children Advertising is a big thing in companies. It is a massive‚ multi-million dollar project that drives the consumers to all the different products available and attracts the consumer by design. They are always around us and affect us in ways we don’t realize it; especially when it comes to children. Some advertisements are targeting children that can be influenced easily‚ and the children themselves don’t realize it. They are‚ in a way‚ manipulating the children‚ which
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