. Point-of-sale advertising can encourage teens to try smoking. Comment please  

ushavaishnav,

not wanting to be too simplistic, but as a parent myself I would suggest that any behaivor including smoking habits can be detered by good parenting.

I always think that businesses will try their best to sell everything to my kids; it is my wife and my job to make sure they make their own decisions.

I think it's insane that tobacco advertising can be seen in public in that way. I fully support the regulations in the UK and elsewhere which basically ban all public advertising of tobacco products.

The reality is that even adults are wooed by the cool advertising, rather than warned off by the boring text explaining that there might be some risk involved.

I wonder why is it just all about smoking why can they be subject to beer and wine and that is ok?I truly believe more people are killed daily by brunk drivers than smokers so why ban one and not the other?

I agree with the comment from above stating that marketing companies will try to sell anything and everything to our kids (and to adults). It's what they do for a living.

I think kids are more likely to smoke if one or both of their parents smokes.

I also agree that although we seem powerless to end what is "marketed" to our kids and "how it is presented", we can teach them how marketers lure us to purchase by placing certain things at certain heights or locations in the stores, that "claims" advertisers make are only geared to making sales, etc.

I also agree that it is odd to remove cigarette ads and leave beer and alcohol ads intact.