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Yes or no answers only...
Does commercial advertising work? If not, then why do it.
Does cigarette smoking in films promote cigarette smoking? If not, why ban it?
Does “product placement” in films work? If not, why pay to have your product placed in them
Does violence in films promote violence?
It is a fair question.
If your answer is no, then it is on you to defend your position as well.
Advertisements and movie characters did not lead us to smoke back then. We were only mildly annoyed by adults around us who smoked.
Enticements and pressure from peers pushed us to smoke. Some of those peers seemed compelled to try many things that were bad and were impulsive young people. They pushed their vices on others.
Notice the marijuana fad. There were no advertisements promoting it in the 1970s, except for a very few strange and boring movies that only hippy potheads flocked to. Yet it was all the rage and spread throughout much of the population of youth. During the ‘80s, there were many ads that said, “Just say no to drugs.” Look at the pot paradigm now, as a large part of the population of all ages is participating in the same old dope fiend fad and preaching it.
“Does commercial advertising work?” Yes
“Does cigarette smoking in films promote cigarette smoking?” Yes
“Does “product placement” in films work?” Yes
“Does violence in films promote violence?” Yes
“It is a fair question.” No, it is not. There is no reasonable relationship between the two.
Most enlightened people realize that the ban on smoking in theaters was instituted originally because of fire danger and the discomfort of other theater patrons. That was far prior to the current political correctness dogma.
P.S. The ‘second hand smoke’ hoax is pure B.S. propagated by the anti-smoking crowd. Dosage is the key factor with any medication or carcinogenic. The studies attempting to link the two are a phony as the Anthropogenic (Human Driven) Global Warming cult studies.
“Does commercial advertising work?” Yes
“Does cigarette smoking in films promote cigarette smoking?” Yes
“Does “product placement” in films work?” Yes
“Does violence in films promote violence?” Yes
“It is a fair question.” No, it is not. There is no reasonable relationship between the two.
Most enlightened people realize that the ban on smoking in theaters was instituted originally because of fire danger and the discomfort of other theater patrons. That was far prior to the current political correctness dogma.
P.S. The ‘second hand smoke’ hoax is pure B.S. propagated by the anti-smoking crowd. Dosage is the key factor with any medication or carcinogenic. The studies attempting to link the two are a phony as the Anthropogenic (Human Driven) Global Warming cult studies.
Does violence in the Bible promote violence?
Should we edit that out?