CMV: The U.S. Should Ban Food Advertising to Children

There is an obesity epidemic in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Obesity_state_level_estimates_1985-2010.gif

From the '60s to the late '90s the rate of childhood obesity grew about 3X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/media/File:PrevalenceOverweightAge6-19.GIF

Obesity is a material health risk, and related to diabetes among other diseases. Other nations faced with similar expansions of the national waistline have had success by restricting the advertising of food to children. See the success Chile has had recently in the linked article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/16/latin-americas-war-obesity-could-be-model-us/

Regulations on advertising to children for other products, such as cigarettes have proven legal. The U.S. should implement a similar regulation of food advertising to children to fight the obesity epidemic.

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China’s children ordered to watch Saturday night television … and then made to sit through 12 minutes of advertising - Parents outraged after pupils were told to watch government-made education show, which was prefaced with a long commercial break scmp.com/news/china/socie…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ManiaforBeatles
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The fact that they’re advertising harmful and false info to children youtu.be/3-lDegynXZo
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Cherrypopsodagirl
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How easy do you think it is to influence children with advertising?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/_maggylene
πŸ“…︎ Feb 24 2020
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A local man is spending his childrens inheritance on advertising space in magazines.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/snappiness
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WA teachers urge parents to keep children home in advertising attack against Government abc.net.au/news/2020-04-2…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GeorgeYDesign
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TIL Since 1980 Quebec have restricted unhealthy food and beverage advertising for children under 13. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has advised that, as a result, Quebec households have a lower likelihood to purchase fast food and Quebec youth and children have very low rates of obesity. cbc.ca/news/business/heal…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Pionnier1313
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Monopoly-themed online gambling ad faces regulator's ban - An advert for a Monopoly-themed online casino game is to be banned by the UK advertising regulator over concern that use of the board game’s familiar cartoon mascot – Rich Uncle Pennybags – might appeal to children.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 52%. (I'm a bot)


> An advert for a Monopoly-themed online casino game is to be banned by the advertising regulator over concern that use of the board game's familiar cartoon mascot - Rich Uncle Pennybags - might appeal to children.

> The Advertising Standards Authority found that the ad, which appeared on the Mirror Online website, breached its code, which says that gambling ads must not be designed to appeal to young people.

> Entertaining Play, whose parent company, Gamesys, also manages gambling products using Richard Branson's Virgin brand, argued that the character of Mr Monopoly, or Rich Uncle Pennybags, was not likely to be attractive to children.

> The company added that the colours used in the ad were not "Garish or overly vibrant and did not draw inspiration from youth culture" and that it had taken steps to ensure it was only targeted at over-18s. Mirror Online told the ASA it did not believe the ad would appeal to children and included a label reading 18+. But the ASA said there was no way to ensure under-18s would not be exposed to the ad and that it did not comply with the code.

> The ad featured a prominent image of the Mr Monopoly character which had exaggerated features reminiscent of a children's cartoon, which meant the image would also be appealing to under-18s.".

> "Taking account of the ad as a whole, we considered that the use of the Monopoly logo and the depiction of the Mr Monopoly character meant that the ad was likely to appeal more to under-18s than to over-18s.".


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Youtbe littearly advertising scam ads to trick children
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[Living Well] - Exposure to sugary breakfast cereal advertising directly influences children's diets sciencedaily.com/releases…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/eventdawdling
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How children around the world are exposed to cigarette advertising theguardian.com/world/201…
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China’s children ordered to watch Saturday night television … and then made to sit through 12 minutes of advertising - Parents outraged after pupils were told to watch government-made education show, which was prefaced with a long commercial break β€’ r/worldnews reddit.com/r/worldnews/co…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/MarshallBrain
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Will Banning Junk Food Advertisements For Children Work? Here Are Some Answers. Addressing Parliament, the government said β€œfood businesses could be asked to voluntarily desist from advertising high fat, sugar and salt foods on children’s channels”. thebetterindia.com/130600…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/gcs8
πŸ“…︎ Feb 10 2018
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In AMC’s Mad Men, the advertising industry is much maligned. Were β€œmad men” the poster children for corporate greed in the same way that investment bankers are today?

Was this a universally held belief? Were they more disliked or iconic than professions like lawyers? Or were they just another white-dollar job?

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πŸ“…︎ Mar 18 2020
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Parents of Reddit, How do you feel about about YouTube content directed towards children that is literally just advertising?
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Advertisers Boycott YouTube After Pedophiles Swarm Comments on Videos of Children nytimes.com/2019/02/20/te…
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Companies should not be allowed to advertise to children

Children are by far the most influential demographic in all of advertising and channels like Disney and Nickelodeon have made millions off the exploitation of growing minds who do not know any better. Youtube is probably more relevant today but it still stands. The exploitation of young minds for profits should not be allowed on a federal level.

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Cheese is to be treated as junk food under new advertising rules for children's television dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv…
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It should be illegal for people to create instagram accounts of their children in order to advertise & sell their β€œbrand”

Scrolling through instagram and i’m shocked at the amount of people who create instagram accounts of their baby’s and children. Not only do some of these people make instagram accounts for their children but they also dress them up and pose them next to their own brand in order to advertise. I think it’s absolutely disgusting that these underage kids are being made into human puppets for their parents to make money and profit off of. They SHOULD lose custody of their children or at least be held accountable by the law.

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People of Reddit who work producing advertising aimed at children, do you have any moral qualms about that work?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/triptomine41
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What children's movie was so dark and traumatic to watch as a child that it should never have been made/advertised towards kids?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Spoderman5555
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As an adult with no children, I have not seen a fast food commercial advertising children's toys in years.
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KFC and Kellogg's junk food ads banned for targeting children [UK's advertising watchdog] bbc.co.uk/newsround/45110…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/BlankVerse
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If commercials are loaded with subliminal advertising, are constantly played, and often show children getting away with bad things then isn't it possible commercials are more responsible for negatively impacting children than any other media?
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'The Smith Family', a company aiming to make homeless children have a better life has their advertisement with a clickbait "percentage can't have certain number on quiz" title. Not sure if this was two ads combined by accident or it is an actual ad made by TSF
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 28 2020
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Youtube advertises Youtube kids to an account set to age 30 with a kid's ad. Right after they got sued for $170 mil. For stealing children's data
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πŸ‘€︎ u/nickthenoone
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Basically all content is dumbed down for advertisers and to protect children and YouTube is here displaying ads which are something akin to pornhub
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ConciseSpy85067
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Could Someone find the actual bill proposed ? (The Protecting Children from Electronic Cigarette Advertising Act )

The Protecting Children from Electronic Cigarette Advertising Act

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query is all I can find

EDIT: more information http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2047 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s2047

http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/54992-S-2047-A-bill-to-prohibit-the-marketing-of-electronic-cigarettes-to-children-and-for-other-purposes-

Still have not found the text of the actual bill anywhere

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BBCNews: UK Government is launching an inquiry into the possible harmful effects of advertising on children news.bbc.co.uk/2/7134943.…
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Welcome to Canada, where public advertisements of gay sex is shoved in your children's faces, and if you don't like it you're a bigot.
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This fake advertisement just to make gullible children get viruses
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Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms | β€œOur decision is based on the decades-long efforts by many in that industry to prevent meaningful climate action by governments around the world,” the company said in a statement theguardian.com/media/202…
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