cigs and drank, whats the deal.

Cigarettes and alcohol in movies, on television, and in our favorite magazines. We see them everyday and whether we realize it or not we are being subjected to their advertisement. Alcohol and tobacco are often portrayed as something cool and mature and is designed to attract the youths of this country. Also they can be portrayed as a means of escape from reality in order to deal with heavy stress and emotional troubles. This is a popular and controversial topic because these company's advertisement are believed to be aimed at teens and present a false image of these products' reality. Advertisements don't show the grave of the man who died from lung cancer from smoking his whole life. And they don't show the family that he left behind. Earlier in the 1950s and 60s many cartoons including Warner Brothers' popular cartoons, involved the smoking of cigars in many shorts and have many 'tabacco incidents'. While this use of tabacco was eventually band from television in the 1970s, it's placement still remains in movies, in movies that are aired on television. It is an undeniable fact, this placement of tobacco and alcohol in films and in magazines encourages teens to pick up these habits which usually turn into addictions.