How do tobacco ads target and manipulate teens?
98244
Well since nicotine has addictive properties, and the ads focus on youth, being romantic-excitement oriented, then the psychology behind getting these new customers, is that they will become dependent clients for the rest of their long lives...
137103
Just another Nanny Culture scam!  The beaurocrats have decreed that we should be told, through advertisements that are costing someone, probably taxpayers, that alcohol and tobacco are bad for us.  I believe it is done through the taxes on the alcohol and tobacco.  Anyway, a bunch of advertising execs have gotten a lot of money, some models and photographers, and what have you got?  In-your-face ads that things you already know are hazardous and must be used in moderation are bad for you.  I don't smoke tobacco and I seldom drink alcohol, but do you believe any of this has been influenced by those idiot ads?
543497
The tobacco companies are NOT ADDING these chemicals.  The chemicals are simply by products of the chemical process involved in burning anything....\n\n"truth.com" tv ads seem to leave out that part, I belive they chould be called "half-truth.com" because they give just enough information to make tobacco look evil, and leave out the fact that this is a natural occurance of the burning process.\n\nPlease do some unbiased research (forces.org)...then take a look at why they are doing this....
30282
targeted advertising...when a mfg comes out with a product, they spend a great deal of time and money to pick a specific group that will be more likely to spend money on that product, then blast the advertising in a specific direction to target that group...the marlboro man was a macho cowboy...attracted young white men who all wanted the macho image...blacks of the 60's and still today, wanted to be as little like white youth as possible, so the cowboy was an imediate turn off, where as "cool" was a term coined by young blacks of the time, so cigarette companies branded the smokes to something young blacks would relate to...the older folks who smoked less popular brands started smoking before mass advertising was such an exact science, so they picked more randomly...
129534
There is something called Tonies syndrome, or labeling theory where if you treat a person a certain way and hold specific expectations of them based on nothing real the person will begin to act accordingly (tell a teen they're bad often enough and they will become bad.)  I've seen it happen many times.
189491
dress nice. smell good. be atleast mildly entertaining. mostly just put yourself out there teens can be very...permiscuious.
1013743
Wow, angry much?\n\nTRUTH ADS are a penance the cigarette companies are having to pay for their hateful, greedy ways.\n\nSo, hate me for it if you like.
322459
Are there any samples of others you can show him that were not good? \nYou know like a long time ago to get kids not to smoke, they would take them to a hospital and show them people on lung support systems. Some had holes in their throats to be able to breathe and they would still want a cigarette because they were addicts.
639103
Not to shed some strange light into this but flavored cigars are smoked by people other than teens smoking marijuana.  If kids want to smoke pot, they can do it with zig zags which are used for rolling cigarettes.  Why doesn't congress go after that business?  Because CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.\nI think I'd be more worried about how the kid got the pot in the first place than how he smoked it.
819928
Well my friend, the teenage look for easy market, not down town or in the comfort of their zone, yes, through the Internet; a "spidey" web churned by the brilliancy of the mind of man. What you are seeing and experiencing are the consequences of the self destructive innovation of man himself. I think bad days are here and guys like us(good guys)should find ways and means to counteract such disturbing and unhealthy practices.
87102
I would worry that banning books and information affects the young.  Students don't want to read or develop opinions and thought.  They want to play video games and listen to music.  Marketing and advertisers influence teenagers to think about materials and ideas that will make them richer not enrich the kids or the world. It creates discourse that is frivolous and shallow, attitudes that are indifferent and lazy.  Some things being banned make people want to read or learn more, but teenagers would run and buy a CD that was controversial, but a book, they probably wouldn’t even know about the controversy because they are not reading newspapers or news online or anything but MTV news. People will become less active minded and less critical and before you know it, the world will change into a new world, but only a better world for the people who dictate the thoughts of the masses.
424585
Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
269640
basically it is because there is no communication between parents and children. this creates a distance between them and children start looking up to peers. but still no answer can clarify how the peers start smoking in the first place.
174581
Generally I feel this question deals with advertising/marketing and motivational factors\n\nIn general, one theory esposes that by targeting a specific group of user, they (group) have a higher propensity to switch buy/use a product.\n\nAnother theory contends advertising has greater strength in its ability to motivate brand swiching rather than promote product usage.\n\nThe controversy lies in the question of message communication to create a "call to action" for the consumer to use any product within its cagegory  verses a "call to action" which motovates a current user of one brand to simply swich brands.\n\nThe tobacco industry has tried to say advertising tobacco products do not motivate the consumer to smoke but rather advertising simply helps with brand switching among current users.\n\n\nI'll let the original person decide which it might do!\nI hope this give some clarification of product using verses brand switching.
8745
Not only them, but the media is to blame to. In movies, you find actors smoking as if it's a "cool" thing to do. Also the ads that are all around!
538374
They are targeting consumers in the 30-50 year old range. We are the baby-boomers, the money-makers, the spenders. They want music that we can relate to, which is by no means the "now stuff" as you put it. It is a smart marketing strategy that works. Products that appeal more to teens do use "now stuff" music, such as cell phones and ipod commercials. They play what works to get the target's attention.
87125
-POS (point of sale) promotions\n-Discreet sampling ("forget" almost full cigarette packs at bars, clubs, etc. for people to take them - smokers will have a free fag for sure even if it is not their brand)\n-Incentives for retailers to give prime display positions to your brand