Team 4: Thanh Truc, Chau Anh, Mai Linh, Hương Ly

Should there be a ban on TV ads aimed at children?

Pros
1. There are many ads with
unhealthy content. For example,
advertising that promotes the use
of alcohol or drugs. Children's
advertisements encourage drug
and alcohol usage by making it
appear enjoyable and cool.
Similar to how Coca-Cola
commercials promote a refreshing
beverage. Advertisements are also
shown during commercial breaks
during shows aimed at minors.
What these commercials clearly
do not portray is how harmful
alcohol is to youngsters and
teenagers. Long-term alcohol
intake can cause brain damage,
and I've heard of many underage
drinkers binge drinking. This is
all due to commercials urging
children my age to consume
excessive amounts of alcohol.
2. Advertising can negatively affect
children's behavior. There are too
many imaginary and fictional
scenes in the advertisement, so
many children think abnormally,
speak and behave like virtual
characters in the advertisement.
Moreover, there are violent
advertisements, which greatly
influence children's behavior.
Many children will imitate and
follow the bad things in the
Cons
1. Television advertising is a vivid
combination of images, sounds,
colors plus movement, and
television effects to give viewers
vivid and realistic images of what
is happening in front of them.
Thereby creating attention,
attracting and stimulating the
curiosity of viewers, especially
children, and providing
consumers with more information
about products and services than
other advertising means.
2. Advertisements may also have
motivating content that can
encourage children to choose a
profession or chase a specific
dream. They can help them
develop a passion for the same
and work towards it from a young
age.
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children's personality will be
eroded and become spoiled,
uneducated children.
3. Advertising may affect children's
health. Children can become
obese due to the advertising of
fast food on TV, which, although
delicious, contains a lot of sugar,
fat and other unhealthy additives.
They will be attracted by the eye-
catching pictures of the dishes
and from there they will ask their
parents to buy them. Obesity rates
in children aged 12 to 17 years
old will fall if limits on food
advertisements are lifted, as they
are currently. This is why I
believe that food advertisements
should be restricted in order to
reduce the rise of obesity among
children, who ask their parents for
sweet treats or buy them
themselves.
4. Children beg for items as a result
of advertisements, which affects
child-parent relationships.
Children's advertising is unethical
because they have little or no
money of their own and must rely
on their parents to purchase items
for them. Companies utilize a
"nag and whine" strategy instead
of advertising directly to parents,
which causes ill feelings between
parents and children. They rely on
the power of persuasion to
persuade people to spend money
they don't have on products they
don't want to buy and that their
3. Some ads include content related
to social change that can help
promote empathy and a sense of
community responsibility in
children. Environmental
advertising also calls children's
attention to this issue. And some
ads also show the consequences
of alcohol and tobacco, which can
help children understand the risks
involved and encourage them to
stay away from those products.
4. Advertisements that present other
children of a similar age engaging
in activities like helping out in the
house or saving can influence
kids to do the same. Children are
generally attracted to their
classmates and find it simple to
emulate them. As a result, they
are drawn to the possessions of
their peers. This could also be
used to encourage youngsters to
use their natural curiosity for
good. For example, certain
advertisements – those for
hygiene products, for example –
can help inculcate good habits in
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hours.
5. Another essential drawback is
that advertisements may take up
too much time for youngsters,
hence it may longer their screen
time and cause a negative impact
on children's eyesight. For
example, when a child is working
on his assignment with an iPad,
an ad in video form might catch
kids' attention and the child
would stop his assignment to
watch the ad. Consequently,
children may spend more time
watching the video advertisement,
which will bring a damaging
effect on their eyesight. I
personally think that
advertisements that appeared in
children's programs should be
banned.
the child.
5. They can be a source of
information. Certain
advertisements, especially public
service announcements present
innovations and technological
milestones that can offer a good
learning opportunity to the child.
Moreover, they also educate the
child about new products on the
market. Healthy food choices
advertised the right way can also
prompt the child to opt for a more
balanced diet.