Alcohol and Tobacco Advertising Restrictions
Tobacco and Alcohol companies are the targets of many initiatives to limit advertising. There is lots of support for limiting these advertisements in later years due to the overwhelming amount of evidence of the dangerous effects of tobacco and alcohol products. ... Lately it seems that for every tobacco advertisement there is a TRUTH advertisement. The organization behind TRUTH advertisements is using all sorts of advertisements in an effort to raise awareness on the effects of Drug and Alcohol use. ... Nonetheless, society has become very informed of the consequences of drug and alcohol use, The current abundance of information has lead to many restrictions on advertisements within certain States. There have been bans of cigarette and alcohol advertisements and billboards within a certain distance of an area frequented by children such as a school, playground, daycare, church, recreation center, or shopping plaza.