Pediatricians Call for a Limit on Tobacco and Alcohol Ads

How about is parents just get off their asses and take their children outside to play instead of letting them sit in front of the TV all day being lazy? Then you wouldn't have to worry about them seeing these ads.

I agree with Kira. Also it has been proven that the more open a country is about sex and alcohol, the less violent crimes there are. The more we remove the worse society will act. Take prohibition for example, not only were people still getting drinks, there was a gigantic increase in crime rate as well.

Yes, fesh air & excersize never hurt anyone.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

Chris, I totally agree with you about the "feminine" adds. Most of them talk down to women, like we are children or morons. It is quite embarassing to be enjoying a football or baseball game on tv with my boyfriend, and have a "feminine" commercial pop up. I'm toally sure that some of them make him uncomfortable also. If the subject is going to be talked about, do it in a straightforward mature manner. That includes the AXE commercial for "how to wash your balls>"

but who the hell wants to have a sad period? Also, as for seeing it during a game or whatever, there is an option to, I kid you not, change the channel. The remote control is a magical object that gives us the ability to choose what we watch on the television. Who could have thought? What is also funny are the commercials for PADS AND TAMPONS (grow up people that's what they are called) that make fun of the ultra feminine commercial for such products. And to finish, axe is the worst smelling material on earth, it is like black death in a can and makes you less attractive.

truer words have never been spoken until today. I agree. Only cruddy parenting can screw a person up.

You make a good point and if you did not write in all caps more people would read your comment.

Did you really ask that question? The govt. outlawed alcohol at one time and look what happened. Also, do you have any idea how big the tobacco industry is? The tobacco farms, plants, advertising industry, etc. How many people are employed through the tobacco industry and its subsidiaryies. The drug companies that supply the chemicals added to tobacco in cigarettes; the paper industry, whoever makes the filters, etc. Then those people become unemployed and are on food stamps, welfare, medicaid and MORE problems. So we try to teach people that paying all that money to look bad, smell bad, taste bad, get sick and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to die in so much pain from cancer and emphysema is just plain stupid.

Jay: Why is it the government's responsibility? If smoking is so bad for you, why do you still keep doing it? Just stop. We don't need the gov't to come and hold our hand. Take personal responsibility for your own choices and stop doing things that cause your body -- and the body of those around you -- harm.